Kazakhstan has rejected an appeal against a fine for alleged excessive flaring at the country’s largest offshore oilfield, ...

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

A young employee of Atyrau's municipality working on this project said: “Every year we dig, and the sea keeps moving away. It feels like we’re chasing it.” The civil servant is afraid that the Caspian ...

The five countries that border the Caspian Sea are fighting over the body of water's future. If it keeps losing water at the ...

Analysts say Beijing could increase its regional economic presence, try to attract more countries to BRI through project ...

“A May 1861 event resulted in an island just 87 meters (285 feet) across and 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) above the water. This one eroded away by early 1862. The strongest eruption, in 1950, produced an ...

Kumani Bank fading from view. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the ...

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev confirmed that the partnership is related to an ongoing effort to build an underwater power line across the Caspian Sea. The project was unveiled last May and is ...

Archaeologists uncover an 18th-century Russian shipwreck on Iran’s Caspian coast, revealing trade and agricultural links in ...

Two ships ship lie grounded ashore in the Caspian Sea, north of Makhachkala, Russia, Feb. 1, 2005 (AP Photo by Hadzhimurad Zurgalov). Editor’s note: Robert Looney passed away on Dec. 19 ...

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 ...