The left branch flows into the Black Sea, while the right ... that are hooked up to the Volga River system, which connects to the Caspian Sea. Speaking of strange bodies of water, we should ...

It would add enough water to the Volga to maintain—or lift—the level of the Caspian Sea. To its only outlet—the sky—the Caspian annually gives in evaporation about 410 billion cubic meters ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea ... from the Volga River, which supplies 80 percent of the sea’s freshwater ...

While the Aral Sea shrank primarily because Soviet-era irrigation projects diverted its tributaries, the Caspian’s decline is more closely tied to climate change-induced evaporation and reduced river ...