The Caspian Sea is within weeks of reaching its lowest level on record, an Azerbaijani official said, as climate change causes lasting damage to the world’s largest inland body of water.
The host country of the COP29 climate summit in Baku, at its main stadium just minutes away from the Caspian Sea, has witnessed the record retreat of the salt water for the past nearly 30 years of its long geological history.
The ebbing of the water levels has been most “obvious” since 1995, said Faig Mutallimov, head of the environmental policy division at Azerbaijan’s ecology ministry. “One of the main causes is climate change.”
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