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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
All eyes are on Azerbaijan as the small petrostate hosts COP29 in its capital Baku, which sits on the shores of the Caspian Sea - the largest inland body of water on Earth. The Caspian Sea ...
A Hull man has completed a 186-mile (300km) swim across the Caspian Sea. Karl Bushby is attempting to travel around the world without using any form of transport. The former paratrooper set off ...
They were built to be close to the water of the Caspian Sea. Now the ground beneath them is parched, and they are just relics of what once was there. Less than 20 years ago, the land beneath them ...