The Caspian Sea, considered the largest inland body of water on the planet, is shrinking. A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment reports that as global ...

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 ...

The southern Caspian Sea coast lies within the Alborz seismic zone, where active faults like the Mazandaran, Alborz, Lahijan, and Astara generate frequent earthquakes. These faults are part of the ...