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 ...
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 ...
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 ...