Here’s What You Need to Remember: The newer frigate Sahand is named for the ship the Americans sank in 1988, but adding one more frigate to Iran’s landlocked Caspian fleet is unlikely to..

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 Caspian Sea, the world's largest enclosed inland body of water, has experienced significant fluctuations in its water levels over the past century. These changes are not only a result of ...

A rare 'ghost island' appeared and quickly disappeared in the Caspian Sea after the eruption of Kumani Bank mud volcano off Azerbaijan's coast. NASA satellites captured the event, showing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Caspian Sea is surrounded by five countries that have long used it as an important trading route. The ship, believed to be a three-masted vessel, was likely abandoned in the late 18th or early ...

He'll be missed. The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries-Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan-that border it. But the future of the ...

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery. | Credit: NASA Earth ...

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 ...

Thanks to climate change, archaeologists located a massive ship from the southern coasts of the Caspian Sea in 2003. Over the past two decades climate change has caused fluctuations in sea levels ...

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 ...