Researchers have confirmed the existence of a new island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, but they haven't managed to ...

Dealing with rising sea levels and flooded coastal regions is one of many talking points at the COP29 climate negotiations. But the Caspian Sea is facing the opposite problem.

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 ...

October 28, 2024 • Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking ...

Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans. It's been called one of the 20th ...

ONOMICHI, Japan -- In late October, as the autumn leaves were turning yellow, I sat on the deck of a ferry crossing part of the Seto Inland Sea, a 440-kilometer-long body of water that separates ...

The Caspian Sea is dropping and revealing new islands to the world. In a recent discovery, Russian scientists have confirmed ...

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.