By Vadim Ni in Almaty The Caspian Sea has long been a cornerstone of life for Central Asia, especially for Kazakhstan, where it plays a critical role in supporting local economies, biodiversity and ...

off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

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 ...

Read a statement from Condon below, and scroll down to find a stint of European tour dates—Beirut’s ... from the Asian steppes around the Caspian Sea and from as far east as Tashkent, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

A transient “ghost island”, born from a mud volcano eruption in the Caspian Sea, has captivated researchers. The island emerged in early 2023, only to recede into the sea by the end of 2024 ...