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It's a seaside resort without a sea ... employees but has now fallen victim to plummeting water levels in the Caspian Sea. RFE/RL spoke to Mergen (not his real name), who traveled there with ...
While everyone is watching the latest drama unfold in the Black Sea, mysterious shipping journeys are taking place in the Caspian Sea. The massive lake—the world’s largest—is bordered by ...
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.
TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Locals in Turkmenistan’s western Balkan region on the Caspian Sea are used to a temporary ... in the Awaza (aka Avaza) resort, a pet project of Turkmenistan ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...