Caspian sea. Medical search. Frequent questions

Kazakhstan Iran Azerbaijan Russia Turkmenistan Armenia (all) Georgia (its east part) Turkey (extreme north-eastern parts) Uzbekistan (extreme western parts) The Caspian Sea is at its South Caspian Basin, like the Black Sea, a remnant of the ancient Paratethys Sea. (wikipedia.org)
An earthquake occurred in the Caspian Sea, Trend reports via the Republican Seismic Survey Center (RSSC) of Azerbaijan. (menafn.com)
On July 4, an earthquake of about six points occurred in Azerbaijan's Guba, Khachmaz, Shabran, and Siyazan, 5.4 points - in Sumgayit, the Absheron Peninsula and nearby territories, and 5.5 points in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. (menafn.com)
The five Caspian littoral states - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan - have been haggling over the sea since the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. (eurasianet.org)
A major obstacle blocking a comprehensive Caspian treaty is a dispute between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over where to divide their respective portions of the sea. (eurasianet.org)
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia have settled their mutual differences concerning the sea. (eurasianet.org)
The headquarters, consisting of experts of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Defense Ministry, the State Border Service, the State Maritime Administration of Azerbaijan Republic, SOCAR and Caspian Shipping Company, continues the search and rescue operations for the missing oilmen. (news.az)
Although Iranian officials concede that there were some major agreements at the Moscow meeting, Iran claims it has not yet agreed with the other four countries, and especially Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, over the division of the sea. (cacianalyst.org)
Halafov also registered agreement on the construction of underwater pipelines, contending that consent is needed only from the states situated along the route of the pipeline - implying that Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan could in principle build a trans-Caspian gas pipeline without permission from the other three states. (cacianalyst.org)
Defining it as a sea allows for the construction of pipelines through the Caspian from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan and then to Europe. (cacianalyst.org)
Azerbaijan will reissue nautical charts, update the electronic Caspian Sea maps for vessels sailing under the Azerbaijani flag and change the water areas of the country's ports. (today.az)
The decision was taken during a meeting of representatives from Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company and Baku International Sea Trade Port to update the electronic map of Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea water region. (today.az)
It is worth noting that the potential of the Caspian Sea in the field of renewable energy is much greater than the total energy potential of Azerbaijan in terms of other types of alternative sources. (today.az)
The Absheron gas and condensate field is located off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea. (offshore-technology.com)
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s, the legal status and the division of the Caspian Sea and its resources between its five coastal States (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Turkmenistan) has remained unresolved. (lexology.com)
We have not recorded any dead seal in the part of the Caspian Sea belonging to Azerbaijan, but such a situation can be expected in the near future. (apa.az)
One of the key infrastructure projects in the framework of cooperation with Azerbaijan is the Euro-Asian oil transportation corridor project to create a new route for oil transportation from the Caspian region to the EU markets. (kmu.gov.ua)
Azerbaijan, Baku, 14 February / Trend / The US State Department will open a position of Energy Coordinator for Central Asia and Caspian Sea basin, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at a meeting dedicated to the 2009 fiscal year of the White House at the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations on 13 February. (trend.az)
Prospecting along the shores of the Caspian Sea near Surabaad, Azerbaijan. (springernature.com)
Washingon should seek a diplomatic approach through defense cooperation to mutually strengthen national security interests of the United States as well as of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan on the Caspian Sea. (caspianpolicy.org)
Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan have tried to define the Caspian Sea's legal status since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in order to divide up the waters and its natural resources for new drilling and pipelines. (worldoil.com)
The joint working group on the demarcation of the bottom of the Caspian Sea between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan discussed the preparation of a draft agreement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan reports. (orient.tm)
The Turkmen side was represented at the meeting by the Director of the Caspian Sea Institute, Myrat Atajanov, and the Azerbaijani delegation was represented by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Special Representative of the President of Azerbaijan on borders and the Caspian Sea Khalaf Khalafov. (orient.tm)
Please read my new article on Caspian 'Sea' and Its International Legal Status published in new book by ISPI (Italy) and Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan) - "The Caspian Sea Chessboard: Geo-political, geo-strategic and geo-economic analysis" Carlo Frappi and Azad Garibov eds. (makili-aliyev.com)

Students will be based in coastal village of Fågelsundet (Uppsala county) between 25th April and the 2nd July 2023 and observe Caspian terns in their breeding colony at Stenarna. (lu.se)

If Russia and Iran can nevertheless reconcile their differences on the demarcation of the Caspian, this would have important strategic consequences not only for the littoral states, but also for the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East. (cacianalyst.org)
Lavrov's announcement came at the conclusion of a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Caspian Sea's littoral states in Moscow to complete work on that draft treaty. (cacianalyst.org)
If the Caspian is designated under international law as a lake, then all five littoral states may equally share all the resources and profits from those resources, in which case any one state could veto other governments' projects of which they disapprove. (cacianalyst.org)
At the Aktau conference in August 2018, the Caspian Sea littoral states ratified an agreement on Caspian Sea status. (today.az)
She said that while other Caspian littoral states have also drawn attention to the issue of the sea's shrinkage, effective measures are still wanting. (eurasianobserver.com)
It is imperative for the United States to enhance its diplomatic presence in the region with Cabinet and Sub-Cabinet engagement and investment initiatives, yet it would be incomplete without addressing the expanding Caspian navies of the five littoral states. (caspianpolicy.org)
I should note that Russia's trade with the Caspian littoral states is constantly on the rise. (kremlin.ru)
An agreement between the Caspian littoral states on transport cooperation, which came into force last year and is aimed at turning the Caspian Sea region into a major international logistics hub, is designed to facilitate a faster launch of this corridor. (kremlin.ru)

The sea's name stems from Caspi, an ancient people who lived to the southwest of the sea in Transcaucasia. (wikipedia.org)
In 2018, the Caspian Sea's legal status was finally confirmed. (today.az)
This decline will result in the shrinking of the Caspian Sea's surface area by 23% to 34%, respectively, with dramatic impacts on biodiversity, people and geopolitical stability. (springernature.com)

In 2022, 1,5 million tons of cargo were transported across the Caspian Sea, said Gaidar Abdikerimov secretary-general of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route association (TITR), APA -Economics reports. (apa.az)
Phylogenetic analysis of viruses isolated from 5 dead Caspian terns in study of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus-induced mass death of wild birds, Caspian Sea, Russia, 2022. (cdc.gov)
The issue of declining water levels in the Caspian Sea is of great concern," Tokayev said during a meeting with the public in the Mangystau region in November 2022. (eurasianobserver.com)

citation needed] In Iran, the lake is referred to as the Mazandaran Sea (Persian: دریای مازندران), after the historic Mazandaran Province at its southern shores. (wikipedia.org)
Iran, the fifth Caspian Sea state, is not facing restrictions because it has a functioning management system for sturgeon. (cites.org)
The chief hang-up for a comprehensive pact remains Iran, which continues to insist on all five Caspian states getting an equal, 20-percent share of the sea. (eurasianet.org)
Thus Iran has for now poured cold water on Lavrov's announcement and on Azerbaijan's apparent optimism about an agreement concerning the demarcation of the Caspian. (cacianalyst.org)
Defining the Caspian as a sea meets with the desires of the states besides Iran who wish to claim their share of the territorial waters. (cacianalyst.org)
Before 1991, the Caspian Sea had only two coastal States - the Soviet Union and Iran. (lexology.com)
Iran, for instance, always considered the Caspian Sea to be a condominum over which all the coastal States jointly exercised sovereignty, including the right to an equal share in its abundant natural resources. (lexology.com)
The final division of the Caspian Sea will be ready when Azerbaijan's disputes with Iran and Turkmenistan will be resolved. (insideover.com)
countries like Iran, which have had difficulties in the past with delimitation, the 2018 deal is the start to a long path to incomes from oil and gas found in the sea. (insideover.com)
We applied this analysis in the Sefid-Rud basin, the largest sub-basin in the southern Caspian Sea situated in Iran, which hosts several dams and reservoirs while more dams are in the construction and planning phase. (lu.se)

However, Russia has apparently sought to secure everyone's agreement to treat the Caspian Sea as a sea, allowing it to exploit its own coastline without seeking others' consent. (cacianalyst.org)
The Caspian provides Russia strategic naval depth and has the potential for minimally restricted illicit trade, both of which can have impacts ranging from security in the Black Sea to illicit international trade networks. (caspianpolicy.org)
I would like to inform you that Russia has adopted and is implementing the Strategy for the Development of National Seaports in the Caspian Sea, as well as rail and road approaches to them until 2030. (kremlin.ru)
In this regard, I would like to emphasise that Russia is striving to make a significant contribution to solving the problems related to the conservation of the Caspian biodiversity. (kremlin.ru)
Most likely it originated in wild rodents, stretching across the northwestern shores of the Caspian Sea into southern Russia. (cdc.gov)

The body found in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea on March 20 has been identified as Guloglan Zulfugarov (born in 1965), who had gone missing in the accident that took place in December 2016 at an oil-gathering station of the Oil and Gas Production Department named after N. Narimanov of Azneft Production Union, the headquarters told APA on March 22. (news.az)
The Absheron gas and condensate field is located approximately 100km south of Azerbaijani capital Baku, in the Caspian Sea. (offshore-technology.com)

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. (wikipedia.org)
The Caspian Sea - the world's largest lake, located on the border between Europe and Asia - is a dying evolutionary giant. (springernature.com)

The government of Kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency over the critically low level of the Caspian Sea, the world's largest enclosed body of water, which poses a grave risk to the maritime industry and the environment. (eurasianobserver.com)
The pipelines will connect D Island in the Caspian Sea to the Karabatan onshore plant in Kazakhstan. (lighthouse-geo.com)
Many years of thorough work have culminated today in the signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea," Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Sunday in the coastal city of Aktau, as broadcast by Rossiya 24 television. (worldoil.com)
The monograph contains materials based on the results of environmental monitoring conducted by Agip KCO / NCOC N.V. during development of oil fields in Kazakhstan part of the Northern Caspian Sea. (kaspika.org)

On December 5, 2017, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that all the key issues regarding the delimitation of the Caspian Sea had been resolved and that a treaty was being prepared for heads of state to sign in 2018 in Astana. (cacianalyst.org)

Paris, 18 June 2001 - Over 100 officials representing the member governments of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) are meeting here from 19-22 June to decide on a range of issues including the rapid decline in Caspian Sea sturgeon populations. (cites.org)
We owe it to the people of the Caspian Sea region to help their governments manage sturgeon stocks on a scientific basis and protect them from illegal traders. (cites.org)
All five Caspian countries are considering making a joint statement to the Committee pledging regional cooperation on sturgeon. (cites.org)
This will include negotiating a regional agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of Caspian Sea fishery resources by the end of the year, conducting a comprehensive survey of fishery resources and populations, asking Interpol to analyse the illegal sturgeon trade, cooperating more to combat illegal harvesting and trading, and inviting CITES to conduct on-site inspections. (cites.org)
Parasites of stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) from south-west of Caspian Sea', Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences , 1(1), pp. 53-60. (ac.ir)
These include the shallowing of the sea and the drastic declining of the sturgeon stock. (kremlin.ru)

Based on the case of the Caspian Sea, we argue for a concerted campaign to raise awareness of threats to people, biodiversity and geopolitical stability. (springernature.com)
Our team was able to reconstruct changes in biodiversity and climate over millions of year, identify anthropogenic drivers of current biodiversity loss, and model future changes in the unique ecosystems of the Caspian Sea. (springernature.com)
The presented results of environmental monitoring allow tracing the impact from operations on the biodiversity and the environment of the North-Eastern Caspian Sea during development of the offshore oil fields. (kaspika.org)

The Volga River, which runs through Russian territory, is the largest river flowing into the Caspian Sea. (today.az)
These are mainly linear-elongated, undulating hills concentrated on the area of the Caspian lowland between the lower reaches of the Volga River and the Kuma River due to the gradual outflow. (europeanproceedings.com)

Caspian terns ( Hydroprogne caspia ) are long-lived migratory seabirds and constitute the largest tern species in the world. (lu.se)

The treaty will also remove a legal barrier to building a trans-Caspian gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Europe, the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies said in July, adding that "political and strategic obstacles would remain. (worldoil.com)
Turkmenistan, which has developed oil infrastructure in the region, will now be able to take part in the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline. (insideover.com)

However, the new coastal States could not agree on the regime and on the division of the Caspian Sea. (lexology.com)
Others considered that this body of water was a shared lake and that the coastal States needed to determine the legal status of the waters and the subsoil of the Caspian Sea between themselves. (lexology.com)
But it also recognizes far-reaching liberties for the common use of the Caspian Sea by all of the coastal States. (lexology.com)
The Convention reserves all rights over the Caspian Sea and its resources to the five coastal States. (lexology.com)
Thus, the entire seabed and subsoil, as well as the respective resources, of the Caspian Sea are divided between the five coastal States. (lexology.com)
This study was conducted to determine growth parameters, catch and fishing effort trends and stock assessment of mullets in the Iranian coastal waters of Caspian Sea in the years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. (aquadocs.org)
This small (10-25 cm adult length) fish was first observed some 10 years ago, but has since then spread rapidly and established large populations along the shallow waters and by the coastal areas of the southern Baltic Sea up to the Stockholm archipelago. (lu.se)

Saipem , through its subsidiary ERSAI Caspian Contractor LLC , has awarded GAS KCO (Kazakh subsidiary of GAS Italy) a contract for the survey and positioning services during the construction of two pipelines of 95 km each. (lighthouse-geo.com)
MOSCOW (Bloomberg) -- Five Caspian Sea states reached a breakthrough agreement on sovereign rights to the sea, paving the way for new oil and gas extraction -- and pipelines -- after more than two decades of disputes. (worldoil.com)
It also allows each to lay pipelines offshore with consent only from the neighboring states affected, rather than from all Caspian Sea nations. (worldoil.com)
The main disagreements of the signatory countries have been: the way to divide the territory related to the sea, the issue of pipelines and cables under the Caspian Sea. (insideover.com)
Pipelines and cables under the Caspian Sea (regulated by Article 14 of the convention), should improve the exporting diversity in the region. (insideover.com)

During warm and dry climatic periods, the landlocked sea almost dried up, depositing evaporitic sediments like halite that were covered by wind-blown deposits and were sealed off as an evaporite sink when cool, wet climates refilled the basin. (wikipedia.org)
Surprising because I have never read (heard) of what I read (Wikipedia): Over the centuries, Caspian Sea levels have changed in synchrony with the estimated discharge of the Volga, which in turn depends on rainfall levels in its vast catchment basin. (drroyspencer.com)
In order to fully balance a Caspian Sea Level drop of 18 m in 80 years, you would need a water volume input of about 2600 m3/s, which is 3 times the Don River water volume transport (and only if the Don River catchment basin does not get drier in the future)! (springernature.com)

The Caspian Sea is home to a wide range of species and is famous for its caviar and oil industries. (wikipedia.org)
We often associate the Caspian Sea with caviar that is legally or illegally finding its way to our tables, but overlook the footprints. (grida.no)

If the above reports are confirmed, the leading edge of the H5N1 in the Urals / northeast Kazahkstan region would be significantly advanced, Birds that travel this path were expected to eventually reach this region just west of the Caspian Sea, but these latest reports suggest the H5N1 has already arrived. (recombinomics.com)
Since the trail of dead migratory birds has gone from Qinghai Lake to Xinjiang to Novosibirsk , to the Urals and now to the Caspian Sea, there is little doubt that the H5N1 will spread throughout the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranian Seas region and on to the Middle East and North Africa. (recombinomics.com)
Why does the US administration show so much interest in the Caspian Sea region? (pravda.ru)
The Caspian Sea region will play an important role in the field of energy security for decades, Mr. Morningstar said. (pravda.ru)
Mr. Morningstar stressed out that his country approved Azerbaijan's and Turkmenistan's cooperation with the United States in terms of developing the energy resources of the Caspian Sea region. (pravda.ru)
Mr. Morningstar's remarks virtually mean that the US administration views the Caspian Sea region as the zone of strategic interests of the West. (pravda.ru)
Why does the USA pay so much attention to such a remote territory as the Caspian Sea region? (pravda.ru)
Alexander Rar, a German scientist of politics, said that both the USA in particular and the West on the whole pinned great hopes on the region of the Caspian Sea. (pravda.ru)
Anatoly Tsyganok, an expert with the Institute for Political and Military Analysis, believes that one should have a different approach to the USA's interest in the Caspian Sea region. (pravda.ru)
He voiced his concern of Russia's domination in the energy supply field and suggested the opening of a position of special advisor in the region in order to secure the US Administration's interests in the Caspian region. (trend.az)
The agreement of five Caspian states, for the governing of the Caspian Sea, has been touted as a very important deal for the region. (insideover.com)
Since only one of the five Caspian states belongs to the OPEC, the Trans-Caspian region has more individual power to set the prices of oil of own extraction. (insideover.com)
For countries which already have well-developed extraction systems in this region, the Caspian Sea deal presents an opportunity to rely on agreed judicial framework, and to take advantage of the suitable terms of it. (insideover.com)
Continuing talks are just the start for the division of power and incomes in the Caspian Sea region. (insideover.com)
At the same time, we believe that prosperity in our shared region can only be guaranteed by an unfailing commitment to the principles enshrined in the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. (kremlin.ru)
The age-standardized incidence rose significantly from 3.8 cases per 100 000 in 2000 to 13.0 in 2005 (slope = 0.26), and the same trend was seen in all regions except the region to the east of the Caspian Sea. (who.int)

Azerbaijan's Ministry of Emergency Situations says it is investigating a fire in the Caspian Sea but has received no reports that offshore oil and gas fields are affected. (rferl.org)
The five Caspian Sea nations already develop offshore oil and gas reserves that are located near enough to the coast not to be disputed. (worldoil.com)
We are already fulfilling our agreements on joint operation of the offshore oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea. (kremlin.ru)

Thus, seal carcasses can be brought from Dagestan to the northern shores of the Absheron Peninsula by sea currents. (apa.az)
The sea and the shores, which still have the potential for exploitation, could have the power both to enrich the countries governing it, and to decrease the world's oil and gas prices. (insideover.com)

Clusters of these changes were mainly located in the south-eastern and the western part of Turkey, the northern regions of Iraq and Syria, as well as along the coastlines of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. (lu.se)

The treaty ends a spat over whether the Caspian is a sea or a lake, granting it special legal status and clarifying the maritime boundaries of each surrounding country. (worldoil.com)

On the other hand, if the signatories designate the Caspian as a sea, then each state would map out its territorial waters and exploit those resources as they see fit. (cacianalyst.org)

Azerbaijan's position reflected optimism about the future demarcation of the Caspian. (cacianalyst.org)

Here's one for the "exercise-in-futility" department: a governmental commission convened recently in Ashgabat to review Turkmenistan's stance on Caspian Sea-related issues. (eurasianet.org)
Don't expect Ashgabat to be leading the charge for a breakthrough in the long-stalled Caspian Sea talks. (eurasianet.org)

Oceanic waves of sea green, teal and marine ripple across Caspian. (knitpicks.com)
The monograph materials present the results of the analysis of changes in the components of marine biota (plankton, benthos, ichthyofauna, etc.), as well as changes occurring in the abiotic environment (atmospheric air, sea water, bottom sediments, etc. (kaspika.org)
In addition to the economy, another important area is the strengthening of cooperation between our five countries on environmental safety and the preservation of the Caspian Sea and its living marine resources. (kremlin.ru)

The cause of death of the Caspian seals (Phoca caspica) discovered along the Caspian Sea in the south Russian province of Dagestan is currently being investigated by experts from Caspian countries. (apa.az)
Our agency for the conservation of Caspian seals is a non-commercial public project. (kaspika.org)

Oil and natural gas of the Caspian states seems to be of strategic significance for the West, Richard Morningstar, the US special envoy for Eurasian energy issues said. (pravda.ru)
The sea also holds about 50 billion barrels of oil and 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in proven or probable reserves, making it a strategic resource for the economies of the Caspian countries. (eurasianobserver.com)

Moreover, the Caspian Gates, part of Iran's Tehran province, may evince such a people migrated to the south. (wikipedia.org)
One senior diplomat, Ebrahim Rahimpoiur, said that any suggestion that Iran's share of the Caspian Sea has been finalized is "a false and unfounded remark, misleading public opinion. (cacianalyst.org)

The Ecology Ministry had stated in June 2021 that "fluctuations in the Caspian Sea level" were natural and cyclical in nature. (eurasianobserver.com)

Others have argued that adaptation is the only viable option, as the Caspian Sea is unlikely to recover from its decline anytime soon. (eurasianobserver.com)
The picture of their origin has been described by various scientists with the involvement of such factors as the rapid decline of sea waters as a result of the catastrophic lowering of the Caspian Sea level (Rem), erosion (Rosen, Zhukov), glacial accumulation (Golynets), tectonics (Korolev), the impact of various exog. (europeanproceedings.com)

The Convention defines the legal status of the waters, the seabed, and the subsoil of the Caspian Sea. (lexology.com)

One of the stressors for the Baltic Sea is the several new species that in recent decades have invaded different environments. (lu.se)
The species is native to the Black and Caspian seas but has most likely travelled with ballast water to the Baltic Sea. (lu.se)
We are currently looking for 2 dedicated master's students to study the courtship, partner choice and breeding behaviour in the largest and oldest Caspian tern colony in Sweden (Stenarna, Björns archipelago, Baltic Sea). (lu.se)

They treated it as a lake and defined its legal status and their cooperation in the Caspian Sea by several bilateral agreements. (lexology.com)

The Convention resolves one of the greatest uncertainties for investments in exploration and exploitation activities in the Caspian Sea. (lexology.com)

He urged the Caspian countries to adopt a joint action plan and to establish a regional monitoring system. (eurasianobserver.com)
There's one goal that unites all of the signatory countries of the Caspian Sea deal. (insideover.com)
Both division of income, and competing goals of the Caspian Sea countries are reasons for them. (insideover.com)

H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Reaches Caspian Sea? (recombinomics.com)

Findings on the Caspian seal are on 214-248, 289-290 pp. (kaspika.org)
If we save the seal, we will save the Caspian Sea. (kaspika.org)

It is predicted that during the 21st century the depth of the sea will decrease by 9-18 m (30-60 ft) due to global warming and the process of desertification, causing an ecocide. (wikipedia.org)

A total of 35 training grounds and camps and 17 naval ranges in the Black and Caspian Seas will be involved. (upi.com)
The Russian Defense Ministry announced Monday that a long-planned major military exercise - called Caucasus 2016 - involving annexed Crimea on the Ukraine border and Russia's Black Sea and Caspian fleets - had got underway. (debka.com)
The Caucasus Mountain Range, whose highest peak is 18,510 ft above sea level, extends from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. (drroyspencer.com)
I wonder why the Black Sea is not included in this comparison. (drroyspencer.com)
Black Sea is about a sixth larger in surface area. (drroyspencer.com)

Thus levels in the Caspian Sea related to atmospheric conditions in the North Atlantic thousands of miles to the northwest. (drroyspencer.com)

Its gross coverage is 386,400 km2 (149,200 sq mi) and the surface is about 27 m (89 ft) below sea level. (wikipedia.org)
The seabed in the south reaches 1,023 m (3,356 ft) below sea level, which is the second-lowest natural non-oceanic depression on Earth after Lake Baikal (−1,180 m or −3,870 ft). (wikipedia.org)
It is estimated to be about 30 million years old, and became landlocked in the Late Miocene, about 5.5 million years ago, due to tectonic uplift and a fall in sea level. (wikipedia.org)
The last short term sea-level cycle started with a sea level fall of 3 m (9.84 ft) from 1929 to 1977 followed by a rise of 3 m (9.84 ft) from 1977 until 1995. (drroyspencer.com)
All things considered, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is pretty good, and on a purely technical level, it's more than pretty impressive. (rcreader.com)
According to Ecology Minister Zulfia Suleimenova, the level of the Caspian Sea has dropped by one-and-a-half meters since 2005. (eurasianobserver.com)
Some experts have suggested that one possible way to restore the water level of the Caspian Sea is to divert water from other sources, such as rivers or lakes. (eurasianobserver.com)
One of the most striking results is the projected Caspian sea level drop of 9 to 18 m until the end of this century, caused by a substantial increase in lake evaporation due to global climate warming. (springernature.com)

While this would not necessarily resolve the issue of the resources and profits accruing from them to the rest of the Caspian Sea, for example the Trans-Caspian pipeline, these competing alternatives are significant. (cacianalyst.org)

The Caspian Sea is home to more than 400 species of animals and plants, many of which are endemic and endangered. (eurasianobserver.com)
Intensive field work showed that some endemic species survived in refugia deep in the Caspian Sea where they are easily overlooked. (springernature.com)

The traditional and medieval Arabic name for the sea was Bahr ('sea') Khazar, but in recent centuries the common and standard name in Arabic language has become بحر قزوين Baḥr Qazvin, the Arabized form of Caspian. (wikipedia.org)
In all these the first word refers to the historical Khazar Khaganate, a large empire based to the north of the Caspian Sea between the 7th and 10th centuries. (wikipedia.org)

The retreat of the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan's coast has exposed vast areas of the former seabed, which are now covered with stones and salt. (eurasianobserver.com)
Quietly, because few biologists today work on the vast and remote Caspian Sea system. (springernature.com)

It regulates the use of natural resources and the airspace over the sea. (lexology.com)
Despite the military aggression, Ukraine has been and remains a reliable partner and remains ready to provide free capacities in the strategically important process of natural gas transportation from the Caspian Sea to the EU member states. (kmu.gov.ua)
How Will Natural Resources be Exploited in the Caspian Sea? (insideover.com)
That is, of course, extraction and exports of natural resources from the Caspian Sea. (insideover.com)
By doing so, we can use the natural wealth of the Caspian Sea in both the conventional and the innovative, alternative energy sectors rationally and effectively while serving the interests of all the parties. (kremlin.ru)

The shallow Caspian zones are strongly affected by human activities. (springernature.com)

The Caspian Sea, a body of water disconnected from the world's oceans, has become the center of growing economic trade and naval militarization. (caspianpolicy.org)

And I quote wikipeidia: The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer. (drroyspencer.com)

Another comment I have about this image is that if I had not looked at my globe I would have known the likely cause of the extensive clouds just to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. (drroyspencer.com)

Is there an Agreement on Caspian Sea Delimitation? (cacianalyst.org)
The new agreement states that the development of seabed reserves will be regulated by separate deals between Caspian nations, in line with international law. (worldoil.com)
The agreement, signed before the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, was likely influenced by it. (insideover.com)

Water levels in inland seas and lakes globally will drop, often dramatically, over the 21st century in response to climate change. (springernature.com)

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