Kumani Bank fading from view. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the ...

The Sudden Appearance of Kumani Bank The emergence of a 'ghost island' in November of 2024 was caused by submarine mud ...

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 this ...

The Caspian Sea, Earth’s largest enclosed inland body of water, is vanishing at a pace that has stunned scientists. Once a stable icon of Central Asia’s geography, the sea is now shrinking so rapidly ...

Aktau, Kazakhstan – During his childhood, Adilbek Kozybakov’s mother always kept a jar of sturgeon caviar in the fridge. Each day, she would spoon it on small pieces of bread and butter for him and ...

BAKU (Reuters) -Rapid falls in the level of the Caspian Sea are affecting ports and oil shipments and threatening to inflict catastrophic damage on sturgeon and seal populations, according to ...

The Caspian Sea is a unique and irreplaceable natural treasure. Protecting it means holding polluters accountable, and that requires transparency. The fate of the Caspian Sea hangs in the balance. A ...

MOSCOW, March 20 (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov inspected navy training in the Caspian Sea and ordered the rapid completion of work on new facilities there, his ministry said on ...

Minister says water loss is accelerating Oil volumes fall at Azerbaijan's Dubendi terminal Baku port steps up dredging to maintain tanker access Seals and sturgeon under threat BAKU, Aug 21 (Reuters) ...