Damming, over-extraction, pollution and, increasingly, the human-caused climate crisis are driving the decline of the Caspian Sea. Some experts fear it’s being pushed to the point of no return.

The Caspian Sea or Lake. Posted: May 20, 2025 | Last updated: ... President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax-and-spending bill could come with a big, ugly cost, economists warn.

As part of a 20-year cooperation pact, Iran is supplying Russia with drones and ballistic missiles in exchange for military and nuclear support, with Caspian oil revenues helping finance these ...

The Caspian Sea is so vast that it is bordered by five countries - Kazakhstan and Russia to the north, Turkmenistan to the east, Azerbaijan to the west and Iran to the south.

The book journeys along the Iranian edge of the Caspian Sea as Javanmardi uncovers the area’s environmental degradation and its effects on the local population. The mass of sewage, industrial waste, ...

Russia has not confirmed its use of the Caspian for attacks on Ukraine, but it was not always so coy. In October 2015, official media quoted then-Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying that the ...

However, if global temperatures rise over 2 degrees Celsius, the sea could drop nearly 70 feet by 2100, according to the study. The Caspian Sea covers an area of 143,200 square miles, if action is not ...

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.

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 ...

Damming, over-extraction, pollution and, increasingly, the human-caused climate crisis are driving the decline of the Caspian Sea. Some experts fear it’s being pushed to the point of no return.