The sea that is vanishing in real time

DW | 05.05.2026 17:23
As a child, Iranian environmental journalist Maryam spent much of her time by the Caspian Sea. From her coastal home in the northern city of Rudsar, she witnessed how the water levels would fluctuate, so much so that in the 1990s flooding along parts of Iran's northern shoreline left some of her relatives homeless.