Sturgeon levels in the Caspian have plummeted since the Soviet collapse in 1991. Environmentalists say over-fishing, in particular poaching, is a major problem. The fish are the source of highly ...

Who is killing the Caspian? According to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Ecology, the sea has lost more than 22,000 square kilometres (8,500 square miles) of surface area since 2006.

Iran has established a dangerous precedent with its threat to use force to prevent what it claims are incursions by Azerbaijani-sponsored oil exploration vessels in a disputed area of the Caspian Sea.

The U.S. government’s early estimates that the Caspian basin might hold from 100 billion to 200 billion barrels of oil–second only to the Persian Gulf’s 670 billion– appear to have been ...

Construction began Wednesday on a new pipeline to carry oil from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, bypassing Russia and Iran. Huge reserves of oil and gas are believed to be ...

On August 1, after eight years of bitter political intrigue, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company (BTC Co.) was founded during a document signing ceremony in London. Witnessed by ...