geological processes and climatic changes. During the late Cretaceous period, around 70 to 60 million years ago, the region that now encompasses the Caspian Sea was part of the ancient Tethys Sea ...

A special envoy to the Caspian Sea region would help counter China, Russia, and Iran—and end the impression that Washington ...

The Caspian Sea, currently facing threats, has been in the news for a different reason: the emergence and subsequent ...

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 ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part ...

A transient “ghost island”, born from a mud volcano eruption in the Caspian Sea, has captivated researchers ... Tingay in a recent seminar for the Geological Society of Australia.

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 ...

Earth Observatory image The Caspian Sea covers 143,200 square miles between ... majors in journalism and art history, and a minor in geology.

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 ...