The Caspian Sea has enabled Iran and Russia to supply each other with weapons and trade goods despite western sanctions.

There’s a spot on the shoreline from where Azamat Sarsenbayev used to jump into the brackish, blue-green Caspian Sea. Only a decade later, it now overlooks bare, stony ground stretching toward the ...

FOR MANY living on Kazakhstan’s coast, it was obvious long ago. The Caspian Sea is drying up. The world’s largest inland body of water has dropped by two metres since the mid-1990s, shrinking by ...

Imagine walking along a coastline where the sea once lapped at your feet just twenty years ago, only to find nothing but barren sand stretching for miles. This isn't science fiction – it's the stark ...

The landlocked body of water has taken on new significance, with Russia shipping military and commercial goods to bolster ...

As the annual UN climate conference (COP29) takes place in Baku, RFE/RL presents exclusive coverage of environmental issues that are often underreported from regions that are often overlooked. Russian ...

Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research has found. Urgent action is needed to protect endangered ...