The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is not a new topic in the CIS region by a long way, but alarm bells have been ringing that much louder in recent years. The issue is growing especially prevalent ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

They were built to be close to the water of the Caspian Sea. Now the ground beneath them is parched, and they are just relics of what once was there. Less than 20 years ago, the land beneath them ...

The island was spotted by satellite in the 143,200-square-mile Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, NASA says. NASA photo Like some sort of modern Atlantis, a “ghost” island has largely ...

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 ...

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 ...

A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran shed light on maritime trade in the Caspian Sea. The findings were recently detailed in a study ...