Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body of water, part of the “Middle Corridor” – the fastest route from China to ...

By Nizom Khodjayev in Astana The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is not a new topic in the CIS region by a long way, but alarm bells have been ringing that much louder in recent years. The issue is ...

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 13 locks on the canal connect the Volga River, the longest in Russia that empties into the Caspian, and the Don River which empties into the Sea of Azov, which is connected to the Black Sea via ...

The “enormous burden of pollution” is turning the world’s largest lake from utopian idyll into a wasteland. Khashayar Javanmardi has spent a decade documenting the changes for both people ...

These reservoirs, and the series of dams along the Volga, have long been linked to decreasing water flows into the Caspian Sea -- contributing to falling water levels there.

This is one part of the explanation as to why Iran dug the last shallow-water well in its Caspian Sea region in 1997 and stopped developing the deep-water wells in 2014.

Another German column thrust eastward through Elista, possibly to drive at Astrakhan, where the Volga flows into the Caspian, or possibly to cut the Volga farther north.

The world's largest lake is so vast that it's four times larger than its closest competitor and is often dubbed as a fully-fledged sea.

‘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.