The world’s largest landlocked water body is shrinking at a rate that could critically endanger an iconic seal species, put coastal communities at risk and release toxic dust, new research reveals.

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 the ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part of ...

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 ...

Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research has found. Urgent action is needed to protect endangered ...

The Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water in the world, faces a grim future in the form of significant desiccation, loss of flora and fauna, and large-scale pollution. All these processes ...

UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL THURSDAY 10 APRIL, 10AM LONDON TIME, 5AM EASTERN TIME. Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea ...