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New Blue Community: Save the Caspian Sea!

The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest enclosed body of water, is facing an environmental collapse. Once a thriving ecosystem, it is now shrinking at an alarming rate due to rising temperatures, polluti...
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Call for Action: Save the Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is a lifeline for millions in Central Asia, but pollution, shrinking shorelines, and biodiversity loss are pushing it to the brink. Vadim Ni, founder of ‘Save The Caspian SeaR...
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Diving into the Secrets of the Caspian Sea

The idea of submerged cities has always fascinated the human imagination. Just think-right nearby, beneath your very nose, lie treasures that have remained silent for centuries! Eager to investigate t...
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Climate Change — and Complacency

The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s largest encl...
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Caspian Sea: Oil Giants Fined

“Kazakhstan Fines Oil Giants Over $6 Million For Pollution”, The Himalaya Times reports.  The Caspian Sea is particularly sensitive to pollution, with shrinking water levels, waste from oi...
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Central Asia: Save the Caspian Sea

Kazakh environmental activists, scientists, and thought leaders are calling on the international community to address the unfolding ecological crisis of the Caspian Sea with the launch of a new global...
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Central Asia’s water crisis

Water scarcity, affecting over two billion people worldwide, is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Climate change, population growth, and poor resource management exacerbate the ...
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Central Asia’s water crisis and the West

The Caspian Sea, vital to Eurasia’s economy and environment, is shrinking at an alarming rate. The declining water level in the sea is one visible consequence of a larger regional water crisis faced b...
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Taliban’s new canal threatens Amu Darya

It’s been called the Nile of Central Asia. The Amu Darya River flows for thousands of miles through four countries and eventually spills into the shrinking Aral Sea. Now a canal being built by t...
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