Environmental activists and officials have raised alarms over the rapidly decreasing water levels of the Caspian Sea, emphasizing the urgent need for collective action among the bordering nations.

There’s a spot on the shoreline from where Azamat Sarsenbayev used to jump into the brackish, blue-green Caspian Sea. Only a decade later, it now overlooks bare, stony ground stretching toward ...

The small town – 3,500 inhabitants – is still surrounded by an imposing dyke, which was built in the 1980s when the sea was rising. Indeed, the Caspian Sea actually fell from the 1930s to the ...

The Caspian Sea's coastline stretches 4,000 miles and borders five countries: Kazakhstan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Turkmenistan. The body of water is often described as the world's largest ...

BAKU, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran ... endangered. Coastal towns like Aytrau, once dependent on ...

FOR MANY living on Kazakhstan’s coast, it was obvious long ago. The Caspian Sea is drying up. The world’s largest inland body of water has dropped by two metres since the mid-1990s ...