Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

The Caspian Sea is shrinking at an alarming rate, a crisis now visible to the naked eye and driven by climate change and ...

The Caspian Sea covers an area of 143,200 square miles, if action is not taken, this means that an area of over 43,000 square miles - an area larger than Iceland - would dry up.

Moving from Tehran to the more northerly lakeside city of Rasht aged 13, Khashayar Javanmardi’s youth was punctuated by weekends and extended holidays on the Iranian coastline of the Caspian Sea ...

The Caspian seal is the only marine mammal found in the 143,200-square-mile Caspian Sea. Now, researchers say water levels in the world’s largest landlocked body of water are getting lower as ...

Beluga (huso huso) The Russian beluga sturgeon is the world’s largest freshwater fish — the biggest on record was a 3,463-pound female, caught in 1827.

F OR 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 ...