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Focus - In Kazakhstan, Caspian Sea Is Disappearing at Alarming Pace
- Researchers from Russia's Academy of Sciences verified the emergence of a previously unknown island in the northern Caspian Sea, situated southwest of Maly Zhemchuzhny Island, in late 2024.
- The island emerged due to a decline in Caspian Sea water levels linked to climate change and natural long-term cyclical fluctuations.
- Scientists spotted the island first in November 2024 satellite images and documented it during an expedition but could not land due to shallow waters.
- Stepan Podolyako stated that the next research expedition is scheduled for the latter half of 2025 and noted the island has potential to serve as a habitat for rare bird species and a breeding ground for Caspian seals.
- The island's increasing size with ongoing water level drops may provide valuable ecological sites, while its emergence highlights the complex impacts of climate change on landlocked seas.
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The Place of No Return
In the 1840s, a dinosaur was discovered on a Kazakh island. Not a fossil – a giant flying lizard, complete with leathery black wings and a beak bristling with teeth, which hatched from an egg on Barsa-Kelmes, a chunk of rock in the Aral Sea whose name is usually translated as Place of No Return. The fisherman who had encountered it fled for his life. Later, he returned to the island to find it dead in an abandoned yurt and managed to remove a to…
Focus - In Kazakhstan, Caspian Sea is disappearing at alarming pace
The world's largest landlocked body of water, the Caspian Sea, is evaporating at an alarming pace. Since the 1990s, its level has fallen by more than 3 metres. With ports drying up, fishing in decline and the economy in turmoil, Kazakhstan is bearing the brunt of the consequences. Like the Aral Sea before it, the Caspian could dry up almost completely if no action is taken. That would be an ecological disaster with massive consequences for the w…
A Russian expedition confirmed the existence of a new island formed in the north of the Caspice Sea, which appeared after the fall of the water level. The formation, which has not yet been officially named, is quite high above the sea, and at the moment of observation, its surface...
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Greek ReporterScientists Discover New Island in the Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea taken from the International Space Station, seen from the southwest. Credit: Public Domain A new island has emerged in the northern waters of the Caspian Sea, according to Russian scientists who recently confirmed the find during a research expedition. The island, located southwest of Maly Zhemchuzhny, became visible as the sea’s water level continued to fall—a development researchers attribute to both natural cycles and modern c…
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