In the icy depths of Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake, a robotic expedition has uncovered stunning geological secrets that were previously hidden beneath the surface. Known ...

Environmental experts and the head of President Vladimir Putin’s Human Rights Council have called on lawmakers to reject a ...

Lake Baikal W0zny. Lake Baikal is the world’s oldest and deepest lake. It’s at least 20 million years old, and roughly a mile deep at its lowest point.

LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — The Lake Baikal ice was the real star even among a gathering of some of Russia’s hockey greats. The ice in the Siberian UNESCO World Heritage site is famously clear, ...

She fell hopelessly in love with Lake Baikal—and this love caused all of her troubles. Marina Rikhvanova, the soft-spoken but persistent leader of the environmental group Baikal Wave, has fought ...

ON LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — A glass orb, the size of a beach ball, plops into a hole in the ice and descends on a metal cable toward the bottom of the world’s deepest lake. Then another, and another.

Lake Baikal formed between 25 and 30 million years ago and contains around 20 per cent of all unfrozen fresh water on Earth. At approximately 23,000 cubic kilometres, its water volume is even ...

Lake Baikal features 27 islands, including one 45 miles in length called Olkhon, while in and around Baikal live more than 1,500 animal species, about 80 percent of which live nowhere else on the ...

Lake Baikal is the world's deepest known lake and, at an estimated 25 million years old, is also one of the oldest. It formed from a rift valley and, because of its isolation, ...

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