The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Iran’s North Drilling Company says the country launched its first exploration robot in the Caspian Sea’s Sardar-e Jangal gas field last year to take offshore drilling operations to a depth of 800-1,000 meters. The company’s Managing Director, Hedayatollah Khademi, said on Monday that Iran has become the first country in …
Himachal Pradesh’s wildlife department has successfully tracked its radio-collared birds to Mongolia, the Caspian Sea, Bangladesh and Siberia, marking a major breakthrough in its pilot project to study the behavior and migration pattern of birds that visit the Pong Dam Lake. Four out of 12 birds that had been fitted …
Marine litter is a global concern affecting all the oceans of the world. It poses environmental, economic, health and aesthetic problems that are rooted in poor solid waste management practices, lack of infrastructure, indiscriminate human activities and behaviours and an inadequate understanding on the part of the public of the …
The Caspian region is one of the oldest hydrocarbon producing areas in the world, and is emerging once again as a major source of growth in global oil and gas supply. In the IEA
The world's largest gas company, Gazprom of Russia, and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) have signed an agreement for the development of Iran's oil and gas fields. This will give Gazprom access to the world's second-largest gas reserves. NIOC and Gazprom will cooperate in developing Iran's oil and gas …
Russia has suggested that Caspian nations impose a five-year ban on fishing for sturgeon, prized for caviar, to save the dwindling stocks from extinction. "We are ready to renounce sturgeon fishing, even for research purposes,' Andrei Krainy, head of the Russian State Fisheries said. The move comes after several international …
Five years ago Russia's rapidly growing oil exports were seen as the cure for the US and Europe's addiction to Middle East oil, international oil companies' most exciting potential source of revenue and the only thing that could quench China's insatiable new thirst. But today Russia is bracing itself for …
An environmental dispute brewing between Kazakhstan and a foreign oil consortium tapping the Karachaganak field might herald further moves by the central Asian country to gain influence over the crown jewels of its oil industry. A Kazakhstan court fined the KPO group $15m on Tuesday for unauthorised gas emissions at …
Five nations bordering the Caspian Sea have reached an agreement to safeguard the waterbody and also pave the way for an equitable sharing of its resources. The treaty, called the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, came into force on August 12, 2006, …
Aun body recently extended a ban on the export of caviar for all Caspian Sea countries except Iran. The un Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites) said it extended the ban as it did not receive information from the five Caspian states
with the recent discovery of an extremely large offshore petroleum reserve in the northern sector of the Caspian Sea, an environmental disaster is in the making. Leading oil companies
Following the failure of the coastal states' meeting to reach a consensus on dividing energy-rich seabed, Iran made it clear that it would prevent any oil exploration by other countries in a sector of the Caspian Sea which it claims as its own. "The oil ministry will not allow anyone …
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently announced the launching of a coordinated plan for surveying and managing sturgeon stocks by Caspian Sea countries. The programme will pave the way for a resumption of the US $100-million caviar industry. "For the first time, the Caspian Sea's wild sturgeon populations are …
The world's three biggest caviar-exporting nations have agreed to stop sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea for the rest of this year to save the fish from extinction. Sturgeons of the Caspian Sea are threatened due to the increasing demand for their pickled unfertilised eggs called caviar. The sea is …
The endangered Caspian Sea may just get a new lease of life: 5 countries ringing the sea - Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Iran - have jointly decided to draw up an environmental action plan to protect the waterbody from pollution, oil projects and illegal fishing. The major threat to …
