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 ...

Clear Mysteries Beneath Our Feet Walking on Lake Baikal's frozen surface feels like stepping into another dimension. Travel to Lake Baikal at the most beautiful time of the year - when the legendary ...

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 ...

For several decades now, the world's largest freshwater lake held a mystery that left scientists scratching their heads. Lake Baikal, located in Russia's frigid Siberia, freezes over every winter. But ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...