A rare and mysterious feature has recently appeared in the Caspian Sea. The temporary "ghost island" formed and then ...

A team of researchers discovered a new island in the Caspian Sea using space images. Cyclical sea changes, climate change, and shifting tectonic plates may all be reasons that the isle has breached ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost ...

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 vanished just ...

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. "We ...

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, shrinking by ...

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 ...

The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland water body, is a dynamic system whose environmental history is recorded in its complex sedimentary archives and fluctuating water levels. Research in this ...