The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland water body, is a dynamic system whose environmental history is recorded in its complex sedimentary archives and fluctuating water levels. Research in ...

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 15,000 square km, an area bigger than Connecticut.

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.

The Caspian Sea is shrinking rapidly, raising alarms around the world. Climate change, which is exacerbated by uncontrolled ...

Neft Daşları oil rig and industrial settlement in the Caspian Sea on September 6, 2023. It was the first operating offshore oil platform in the world.