The war in Ukraine is making a growing environmental crisis in the Caspian Sea worse, claims Zaur Shiriyev, a scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. The Aral Sea is already gone, but now global warming as seen the Caspian Sea shrink by a third that has caused alarm in the bordering countries. In early July, a sudden mass death of fish off Azerbaijan’s coast raised concerns about the environmental impact of Russia’s military activities in the Caspian Sea, particularly its cruise missile strikes on Ukraine. This coincided with a significant Russian missile attack allegedly using Kalibr c…