Over the past two decades, the Caspian’s water levels have dropped by nearly two meters, with shoreline retreat of up to 18 kilometers in parts of Kazakhstan where the sea is at its shallowest.

“We are currently standing in the water, but if it were 10 years ago, we would be 10 to 20 metres further inside the Caspian Sea from the shoreline where we stand now,” he says ...

On a beach just outside the Azerbaijani capital Baku, a pair of deserted swings creak back and forth in the wind. They were built to be close to the water of the Caspian Sea. Now the ground ...

The “weird” sandy protrusion emerged in the Caspian Sea after a mud volcano erupted in early 2023. By then end of last year it had almost completely disappeared – dissolving away “like an ...