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 ...

the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of ...

Meanwhile, 2024 saw the warmest temperatures recorded in 170 years along Lake Baikal, where ice cover had yet to form as of mid-January. Russia has been warming at more than twice the global ...

Golf just got a whole lot cooler. Around 50 golfers gathered on Lake Baikal to compete in the annual Baikal Ice Golf tournament. The Siberian lake is the deepest freshwater lake in the world ...

IRKUTSK, December 10. /TASS/. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake rocked Lake Baikal, with earth tremors being felt ion the city of Irkutsk, the press service of the Russian emergencies ministry’s ...

Once a hidden gem in the heart of Siberia, Lake Baikal has become ... known as the Baikal Seal, became trapped here when the last Ice Age retreated. The Nerpa are now a protected species.

Once a remote secret of Siberia, Lake Baikal has blossomed ... which is also known as the Baikal Seal, was believed to have become trapped here when the last Ice Age retreated.

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels of microscopic plastic particles and fibres that most likely come from packaging and fishing nets. Research published in ...

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 481 of April 11, 2025 approved the minimum and maximum values of the water level in Lake Baikal for the period from 2025 to 2027. According to ...

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has been recorded in the water area of Lake Baikal ... According to the Baikal branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017), pp. 1383-1392 (10 pages) Lake Baikal, Siberia, is the most biodiverse freshwater lake on Earth. However, despite decades of painstaking limnological ...

The Russian authorities had not come to any conclusions regarding the re-profiling of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill at Baikalsk, one of the main polluters of the Lake. The Observer of the Russian ...