As in the case of the Aral Sea, the Caspian’s woes are not been driven only by climate change. ‘Polluted by oil companies’ The Volga, Europe’s largest and longest river located in Russia ...

Around 41% of total Caspian crude oil and lease condensate and 36% of natural gas exists in the offshore fields, with an additional 35% of oil and 45% of gas estimated to lie onshore within 100 ...

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews' newest book, Caspian: The Elements, takes the reader on a meandering journey through oil-rich central Asia following traces of natural elements such as fire, gas ...