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Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea, and said that the two had ...
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
The Caspian Sea is shrinking. [5] Azerbaijan will host the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, ... The water level of the Caspian Sea is falling. [5]
The Aral Sea drainage basin encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. [1] Formerly the third-largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 km 2 (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.
Ukraine carried out a drone attack on Russian warships in the Caspian Sea for the first time. The Wednesday attack hit the Russian port city of Kaspiysk, hundreds of miles from the front lines.
The efforts included Syr Darya Control & Northern Aral Sea (NAS) project. [4] The $86 million NAS project, funded jointly by the World Bank through a loan of $65 million and the Government of Kazakhstan which covered the rest, was designed to mitigate the environmental and economic damage to the region, sustain and increase agriculture and fishing in the Syr Darya basin and secure the ...
Caspian Sea: 371,000 square kilometres (143,244 sq mi) Atyrau Region, Mangystau Region: The Caspian Sea is the world's largest enclosed body of water. Alakol: 2,650 square kilometres (1,023 sq mi) Almaty Region: Bird breeding and nesting ground Aral: 17,160 square kilometres (6,626 sq mi) Shrinking owing to environmental problems [1] Aralsor
The plans involved not only irrigation, but also the replenishing of the shrinking Aral Sea and Caspian Sea. In the 1970s construction started to divert the Pechora River through the Kama River toward the Volga and the Caspian Sea in the south-west of Russia.