Lake Baikal in Siberia is a natural wonder unlike any other. Formed by shifting tectonic plates, it holds 20% of the world’s ...

Russian scientists have deployed a giant telescope into the frigid depths of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia to search for the tiniest known particles in the universe. The telescope, Baikal-GVD, is ...

"I've had the idea since I left Russia," said Pike, who lived and studied in that country for two years while on an academic exchange. One of those years was spent in Irkutsk (Eugene's Russian "Sister ...

A circle in thin ice in Lake Baikal, Russia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 19 crewmember on the International Space Station. Late in April 2009, astronauts aboard the station ...

The giant lake has been shrinking since last autumn, when for the first time in 60 years its levels dropped almost to a critical mark of about 40 centimeters within a year’s time MOSCOW, February ...

Despite the fact that the Great Lakes Aquarium has just opened its doors, it is already planning the next three summers of changing exhibits. * Summer 2001 -- Hunters of the Sky, a hands-on look at ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Russia's Siberia region are investigating the deaths of 141 seals whose carcasses washed up on the shoreline of the world's deepest lake. The Irkutsk region's government ...

"It’s been a warm winter in Baikal, as observed from space," Roscosmos said in comments to its posted pictures MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake located in Russia, has ...

A gorgeous photo of frozen methane bubbles trapped in ice within the deepest lake on earth has gone viral. The picture— taken by photographer Kristina Makeeva and also shared by NASA—shows bubbles of ...

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1997: World Heritage Centre mission; 1998: World Heritage Centre monitoring mission; 2001 and 2005: joint UNESCO/IUCN Reactive Monitoring missions; 2003: UNESCO/IUCN high‐level mission; 2011: joint ...