China is reviving an ekranoplan design dubbed the "Bohai Sea Monster," echoing the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster", a vessel ...

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and ...

Leading off… Russia has become the first state to recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan, almost four years after the radical Islamic movement returned to power in Kabul. A Russian Foreign ...

The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water, is shrinking alarmingly. It visibly receded along its shores, once ...

Financial flows follow certain routes. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) responded almost immediately to the agreements signed between Azerbaijan and China. On April 24, the bank ...

The closures of Russian and Ukrainian airspace due to ongoing war had already made Middle Eastern routes crucial for ...

This work attempts to expand the understanding of the whole picture of the Caspian Sea surface oil pollution and its sources. We present results based on satellite SAR and VIS data obtained in ...

TEHRAN - The collision of the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates causes tectonic interaction with significant seismic activity along fault systems in the Alborz Mountains and the Caspian Sea region.

The Caspian Sea is home to a variety of life. Six sturgeon species live within the sea, along with the endangered Caspian seal. Caspian seals give birth on the ice in the northern regions of the sea.

Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level threatens ecosystem integrity, biodiversity protection, and human infrastructure. Communications Earth & Environment, 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02212-5 ...

The number of Caspian seals has dropped from one million to one hundred thousand, while people living in lakeside regions have suffered a decrease in life expectancy and increase in cancer rates ...