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

As we entered the train yards of Irkutsk, another of the industries of Siberia became obvious. Train car after car was full of raw and finished wood. The area close to the tracks appeared more ...

It had rained the night before and the rouge pathways that serve as roads on Lake Baikal’s largest island were a sloppy, muddy mess. A van in front of us filled with Chinese tourists — one of a dozen ...

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 across ...

If you’ve never spent 10 days helicoptering around Siberia and dirt biking around Lake Baikal... well, no worries. Neither has any other human, because such a thing has never been arranged. Well, now ...

Reporting from Irkutsk, Russia — There are days when renowned Russian ecological crusader Marina Rikhvanova feels like an endangered species. She has gotten used to a certain amount of ambient ...

Hannah Osborne is Nesweek's Science Editor, based in London, UK. Hannah joined Newsweek in 2017 from IBTimes UK. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and King's College London. Languages; ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over southern Siberia and the world’s largest freshwater lake: Lake Baikal. Imaged on 14 March 2017, this deep lake is covered by ice. The entire lake is ...

LISTVYANKA, Russia — When Andrei Sukhanov saw that the Chinese-owned hotel rising next door was about to obstruct the sweeping view of Lake Baikal from his small, rustic motel, he steeled himself with ...