Nice post. Too bad most comments will be juvenile jokes.
So far, so good...................
I found the article to be an interesting read and I applaud the discovery. However I found the obligatory propagandistic doom and gloom about global warming, ocean acidification, and other doom porn bullshit tiresome.
Here is a link to an article from the same website sciencedirect.com on the Caspian Sea that is entirely deceitful propaganda. it talks about the Caspian Sea drying out due to climate change and makes no mention of the fact that the Soviets damned the Volga River which provides 85% of the inflow and other countries bordering the Caspian Sea diverted the water to cultivate cotton: It May Be Too Late to Save The World's Largest Lake From Climate Change
Here is the truth from Natural History:
Fate of the Caspian Sea
Threatened by pollution and climate change, the future of Earth’s largest inland body of water is in the hands of five bordering nations
source: https://naturalhistorymag.com/features/112161/fate-of-the-caspian-sea
One consequence of the Caspian’s isolation from the world ocean is that its sea level—currently more than eighty seven and a half feet below the ocean’s mean sea level (MSL)—rises and falls depending largely on variations in rainfall in the watersheds of the Volga and other rivers. The changes in water level have affected the lives of nearby inhabitants since ancient times. In 1991, the Russian historian and geographer Lev Gumilev suggested, in The Millennium around the Caspian Sea, that severe encroachment of the sea played a significant role in the decline and fall of the Khazar khanate in the tenth century ad. The khanate, which had risen in the seventh century, controlled a huge territory to the northwest.
In more recent times, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, the Caspian Sea has varied by more than twelve feet in depth, between 83 and 95 feet below MSL. In the 1950s, a decline in the sea’s level was attributed to the damming of the Volga and other rivers and diversion of water for irrigation and other human uses. That prompted the first rigorous movement during the Soviet era to protect the Caspian, under the slogan, “Save the Caspian Sea!” By 1990, however, the situation had completely changed, and with the threat of a rising sea level, construction to protect some waterfront areas was initiated under a new motto: “Save us from the Caspian Sea!”
Read the article from sciencedirect.com first and then the one from Natural History and you will fond that the climate change lies in the first article are unsupportable.