There are numerous opportunities to further integrate Europe with Central Asia and the Caucasus by upgrading shipping ...

Although the ocean covers roughly 71% of Earth’s surface, more than 80% of that ocean has yet to be mapped, explored, or even ...

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water. It has characteristics of both a lake and a sea; it's surrounded ...

Russian scientists discovered a new island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, which was confirmed during a research expedition, the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) of the Russian ...

As part of a 20-year cooperation pact, Iran is supplying Russia with drones and ballistic missiles in exchange for military ...

An area larger than Iceland is ... More than 15 million people live around the coasts of the five Caspian countries, and they rely on the sea for fishing, shipping and trade.

More than 15 million people live around the Caspian coast ... Currently the Caspian Sea extends approximately 1150 km by 450 km, with a total area of 387,000 km². With a 10 m decline, four ...

Iran is increasingly interested in investing in infrastructure for a north-south economic corridor that would link the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. This is part of a much wider plan that ...

The aircraft limped across the Caspian Sea and crashed short of a runway near Aktau, Kazakhstan ... gain national control over a maximum seabed area, hoping to secure access to offshore oil ...

The “weird” sandy protrusion emerged in the Caspian Sea after a mud volcano erupted ... 24km off the eastern coast of Azerbaijan, near the capital Baku. The transient island formed around ...

The Caspian Sea is drying up. The world’s largest inland body of water has dropped by two metres since the mid-1990s, shrinking by 15,000 square km, an area bigger than Connecticut. Each year in ...