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This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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Climate change is fast shrinking the world’s largest inland sea

Once a haven for flamingos, sturgeon and thousands of seals, fast-receding waters are turning the northern coast of the Caspian Sea into barren stretches of dry sand. In some places, the sea has retreated more than 50km. Wetlands are becoming deserts, fishing ports are being left high and dry, and…

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BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years

The oil giant said the discovery was its tenth to date in 2025 and the biggest since the 1999 find of the Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea.

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'Ghost island' appears after underwater eruption, then vanishes into the Caspian Sea — Earth from space

A series of photos taken between 2022 and 2024 shows the emergence and rapid disappearance of a volcanic "ghost island" off the coast of Azerbaijan.

LiveScience

‘The Caspian Sea is shrinking. It is visible with the naked eye’

Kazakh ecologists and environmental activists worry that the Caspian Sea’s levels are set to decline further.

Al Jazeera

Russian scientists discover a new island in the Caspian Sea — the world's largest inland body of water

Researchers have confirmed the existence of a new island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, but they haven't managed to land on it yet.

LiveScience

The race for Central Asia’s transport routes: Who will dominate the new Silk Roads?

With Europe searching for trade routes that bypass Russia, eyes have turned to the region.

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Toxic dust and stressed seals: What the shrinking Caspian Sea could mean for people and nature

An area larger than Iceland is likely to dry up, even if the climate ‘only’ warms up by 2C. Here’s what that means in the Central Asian region.

Euronews

American Airlines flight from New York to Delhi makes unscheduled landing in Rome

An airport spokesman says an American Airlines flight en route from New York to New Delhi has turned around over the Caspian Sea and landed in Rome

The Independent UK

Satellites watch 'ghost island' solidify in the Caspian Sea before disappearing (photos)

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery.

Space

Azerbaijan Airlines crash: was this another military shoot-down of a civil aircraft?

Key questions and answers about the first fatal crash anywhere in the world involving a passenger jet in 2024

The Independent UK

Azerbaijan Mourns 38 Killed In Plane Crash In Kazakhstan

The Embraer 190 aircraft was supposed to fly northwest from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the city of Grozny in Chechnya in southern Russia, but instead diverted far off course across the Caspian Sea. It crashed Wednesday near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.

Latin Times

Azerbaijani Jet Crashes In Kazakhstan, Killing 38

The Embraer 190 aircraft that was supposed to fly northwest from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the city of Grozny in Chechnya in southern Russia, but instead flew across the Caspian Sea and went down near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.

International Business Times

Iran police shot a woman while trying to seize her car over hijab law violation, activists say

On a darkened road beside the Caspian Sea, Iranian police officers opened fire last month on a 31-year-old woman who had tried to speed away likely knowing they wanted to seize her vehicle

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Shrinking Caspian Sea Worries Secretive Turkmenistan

On the Caspian Sea coast in Turkmenistan -- one of the world's most secretive states -- Batyr Yusupov can no longer ferry his passengers between two ports.

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'Pogrom' in Dagestan: the worrying signs of resurging antisemitism in Russia

Dagestan – the “land of the mountains” – is a multi-ethnic Russian republic situated in the north Caucasus of eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. A place of stunning landscapes, it is a deeply troubled region.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin gets rock star welcome by crowd as he kisses kids and poses for selfies

Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to the city of Derbent, on the Caspian Sea, 2,000km from Moscow, to mark the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha and visit an ancient citadel and historic mosque

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