The Caspian Sea occupies an unusual place on the map. It carries the name of a sea, stretches beyond the horizon in every direction from many points along its shoreline, and contains salt water rather ...

The Caspian Sea, the largest inland body of water on Earth, is shrinking. Not fluctuating, not entering another natural cycle, but shrinking. For decades, scientists and policymakers treated changes ...

Geography is a practically unchanging quantity, but the significance of individual points on the map can change radically.

The Caspian and Black Sea basins represent a complex system of inland sea dynamics shaped by climatic forcing, catchment hydrology and palaeogeographic evolution. The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest ...