Researchers have confirmed the existence of a new island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, but they haven't managed to ...

The Kumani bank mud volcano is one of many in Azerbaijan’s region of the Caspian Sea, an area known for its geological ...

A new island has emerged in the Caspian Sea as water levels decline, offering scientists insight into regional climate change, tectonic shifts, and the potential for new habitats.

Such an event suggests the geology on the Earth is a changing and ... almost entirely when the sediment sank again into the ...

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 ... using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing ...

Baku hopes reserves at the Umid and Babek fields may eventually rival the country's largest offshore gas asset, the ...

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 Caspian Sea is finally going the ...

From 2005 to 2023, the Caspian Sea's water level dropped by 185 centimeters, resulting in a loss of 31,000 square kilometers of water area. Environmental activists and officials have raised alarms ...

There’s a spot on the shoreline from where Azamat Sarsenbayev used to jump into the brackish, blue-green Caspian Sea. Only a decade later, it now overlooks bare, stony ground stretching toward ...

off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

This phenomenon highlights the dynamic nature of mud volcanoes and their impact on geology. Image source: NASA A rare and mysterious feature has recently appeared in the Caspian Sea. The temporary ...