Allowing the Caspian Sea to succumb to industrial exploitation and climate-induced desiccation would be an irreversible ...

One of Earth's most interesting natural features, the Caspian Sea is the largest inland body of water on the planet, defying conventional classifications to be both a sea and a lake. Situated ...

A mysterious island appeared in the Caspian Sea in 2023 due to a mud volcano eruption and vanished by the following year, ...

In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of ...

A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran shed light on maritime trade in the Caspian Sea. The findings were recently detailed in a study ...

In the first image from November 2022, the underwater mud volcano is solidly beneath sea level, with no discernable land ...

A mysterious island suddenly emerged on the surface of the Caspian Sea, only to disappear again in less than two years.

Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - all bordering the Caspian Sea - have agreed in principle on how to divide it up. Their leaders signed the Convention on the Legal Status of ...

MAZANDARAN, IRAN—Phys.org reports that a wooden shipwreck discovered in Iran on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea has been studied by a team of researchers from the International Association ...

About 2,500 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia, officials say. Officials say there is no sign that they died violent deaths. Some 700 dead seals were initially ...