At 4:06 a.m. on November 29, 2025, unmanned naval drones struck Mooring Point 2 at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) ...

Local communities and environmental activists in Kazakhstan are raising concerns over the alarming decline of the Caspian Sea’s water levels and increasing pollution, attributing the crisis to climate ...

The operator of Kazakhstan's offshore Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea on April 2 denied reports of an oil spill and said its facilities were working normally. Globus, an environmental ...

Nearly 500 endangered Caspian seals have washed up dead along Russia’s Caspian Sea coast, prompting officials in the republic ...

As the annual UN climate conference (COP29) takes place in Baku, RFE/RL presents exclusive coverage of environmental issues that are often underreported from regions that are often overlooked. Russian ...

TEHRAN, IranTEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s navy on Monday added a destroyer capable of launching cruise missiles to its Caspian Sea fleet, state media reported. The 1,400-ton Deilaman destroyer, named for a ...

Aktau, Kazakhstan – During his childhood, Adilbek Kozybakov’s mother always kept a jar of sturgeon caviar in the fridge. Each day, she would spoon it on small pieces of bread and butter for him and ...

The small stratocumulus cloud has a complex origin story. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A "peculiar" cloud, as NASA terms it, ...

The pact was finalized on Wednesday during a meeting of the four littoral states in St. Petersburg, Russia. Representing Iran, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, Commander of the Iranian Navy, signed the ...