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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 shrinking. [5] Azerbaijan will host the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, ... The water level of the Caspian Sea is falling. [5]
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.
Up until the 17th century, the lake was fed by the Uzboy River, a distributary of the Amu Darya River, which continued on to the Caspian Sea. Today, its main source of water is a canal from the Amu Darya but also the runoff water from surrounding irrigated lands, containing high levels of pesticides, herbicides and heavy metals.
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.
Azerbaijan is situated on the northern extremity of the subtropical zone, in the southeastern part of the Caucasus and the northwestern part of the Iranian plateau.The complicated geographical location and landscape, the proximity of the Caspian Sea, the effect of the sun's radiation, air masses of different origin, etc., contribute to its climatological diversity.
In order to elaborate a Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, a special working group at the level of deputy foreign ministers was established in 1996 by the Caspian states. Negotiation of the document lasted more than 20 years before its signing on 12 August 2018 by the heads of five Caspian states at the summit in Kazakhstan.