The Caspian Sea is shrinking at an alarming rate, a crisis now visible to the naked eye and driven by climate change and human activity. The post Caspian Sea Shrinks Dramatically, Exposes Seabed in ...

Kazakh ecologists and environmental activists worry that the Caspian Sea’s levels are set to decline further.

Three images of the "ghost island" that appeared off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, dated from November 2022 (left), February 2023 (center) and December 2024 (right).

Damming, over-extraction, pollution and, increasingly, the human-caused climate crisis are driving the decline of the Caspian Sea. Some experts fear it’s being pushed to the point of no return.

Photographer Khashayar Javanmardi spent a decade documenting changes affecting the Caspian Sea. This image, taken in May 2019, shows how a breakwater in the Anzali lagoon, has exacerbated drought ...

About 2,500 dead Caspian seals, an endangered species that solely resides in the sea of which they got their name, have been found along Russia's border with the world's largest inland body of water.

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.

‘The Caspian Sea is shrinking. It is visible with the naked eye’ Kazakh ecologists and environmental activists worry that the Caspian Sea’s levels are set to decline further.

Three images of the "ghost island" that appeared off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, dated from November 2022 (left), February 2023 (center) and December 2024 (right).