Whether meteor-forged or rift-born, Lake Baikal’s ecological significance is not up for debate. Dubbed the “Galápagos of ...

Lake Baikal is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in light of its fauna and flora. The lakeshore offers some of the most beautiful vistas in Russia. The Trans-Siberian train route runs along ...

the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of ...

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels of microscopic plastic particles and fibres that most likely come from packaging and fishing nets. Research published in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest and deepest freshwater lake in the world. It is frozen for up to five months a year and its ice is so thick cars often drive ...

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has been recorded in the water area of Lake Baikal ... According to the Baikal branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the ...

A federal emergency regime has been declared in Russia’s Trans-Baikal Territory in response to escalating wildfires, the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) announced on Wednesday.

TASS/. Russia’s government has earmarked 1.29 billion rubles ($18.9 million) in subsidies to implement a range of measures for protection of the world’s deepest Lake Baikal and the social and ...

They study animal organisms from the Ussuri River. Once they’re back by the shores of Lake Baikal, they examine the fauna from adjacent lakes and the Angara River. The Russian Geographical Society and ...