A group of Russians completed an icy swim across Lake Baikal in Siberia on Wednesday in an effort to draw attention to ecological threats facing the world's largest freshwater lake. The four men and ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — Along the shores of a lake considered deeper and older than any other, there is a place some locals regard as sacred. It is here, in Lake Baikal’s Olkhon Island settlement, that ...

Lake Baikal, located north of Mongolia in Russia, is thought to be the deepest and most ancient lake in the world. People have lived around Lake Baikal for about 40,000 years - since the Upper ...

Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to an analysis by a joint ...

Russian government bans paper and pulp production at Baikal shore ULAN UDE, March 17. /TASS/. Water level in Lake Baikal has dropped to its decade’s minimum of 455.94 meters, or by six centimeters ...

The Lamborghini Urus has proved its mettle once again by setting a new top speed record on ice, at Lake Baikal, in Russia’s Southern Siberia, which is the largest fresh water and deepest lake in the ...

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 ...

Genetic polymorphisms of blood groups, serum proteins, red cell enzymes, PTC tasting, and cerumen types are reported for five Mongoloid populations of Buryats from the Lake Baikal region of Siberia ...

Giant ice rings (diameter 5–7 km) detected on lakes Baikal (Russia) and Hovsgol (Mongolia) are a surface manifestation of intrathermocline lens-like eddies under ice cover. By analyzing satellite ...