Allowing the Caspian Sea to succumb to industrial exploitation and climate-induced desiccation would be an irreversible ...

Phys.org reports that a wooden shipwreck discovered in Iran on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea has been studied by a ...

The five countries that border the Caspian Sea are fighting over the body of water's future. If it keeps losing water at the ...

Both nations have agreed to establish a joint-shipbuilding operation in the Caspian Sea and cooperate in dredging the canal, something that has not been done since 1991. The prolonged lack of dredging ...

One study suggests that if current evaporation rates continue, the northern part of the Caspian Sea could disappear within 75 years. Compounding the effects of climate change are reduced river inflows ...

One of Earth's most interesting natural features, the Caspian Sea is the largest inland body of water on the planet, defying conventional classifications to be both a sea and a lake. Situated ...

A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran shed light on maritime trade in the Caspian Sea ... near the Volga River basin or the Caucasus.

Iranian coastal areas along the Caspian Sea have experienced rising ... were determined to originate from cultivation regions near the Volga River basin or the Caucasus. Associated weeds ...

This remarkable journey makes it the most international river in the world ... northwest of Moscow, the Volga meanders southward before emptying into the Caspian Sea. Its immense length and ...

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The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s ...