About 2,500 dead Caspian seals, an endangered species that ... with no heavy metals or pesticides found in the animals' organs. These types of situations happen every few years in the region ...

The Caspian seal is the only marine mammal found in the 143,200-square-mile Caspian Sea. Now, researchers say water levels in the world’s largest landlocked body of water are getting lower as ...

Caspian seals, the only mammals found in the ... Dagestan’s Ministry of Natural Resources said the animals had died of “natural factors” and warned that the number of dead seals was likely ...

Their haul-out sites in the shallower northeastern Caspian Sea are shifting and disappearing, as the animals also struggle against pollution and overfishing. Aerial surveys show huge reductions of ...

Biodiversity Currently the Caspian Sea extends approximately 1,150 km by 450 km, with a total area of 387,000 km 2. With a 10 m decline, four out of 10 ecosystem types unique to the Caspian Sea ...