Soar above the immense, landlocked basin of the Caspian Sea with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the sheer scale of the world's largest lake, an inland sea bordering five countries—Iran, ...

As the annual UN climate conference (COP29) takes place in Baku, RFE/RL presents exclusive coverage of environmental issues that are often underreported from regions that are often overlooked. It's a ...

Soar above the immense, landlocked basin of the Caspian Sea with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the sheer scale of the world's largest lake, an inland sea bordering five countries—Iran, ...

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 the ...

FOR 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 by ...