Researchers are studying the impact of climate change and environmental toxins on the lake's fauna. They addressed the question of how Baikal amphipods that fulfill important ecological functions in ...

The remote northern coast of Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is now available to a few VIP tourists ULAN-UDE, November 24. /TASS/. The remote northern ...

Jaw-dropping footage of the real-life ICEMAN discovering his powers. This creative clip features Artem Shapirenko performing some cool magic tricks at Lake Baikal that involve him making ice blocks by ...

Some places on Earth hold stories older than humanity itself. One such place is Lake Baikal in Siberia. This enormous lake has existed for 25 million years, making it the oldest freshwater lake on the ...

President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a long-contested measure allowing limited logging along the shores of Lake ...

IRKUTSK, Russia -- Environmentalists in Russia's Far East have been celebrating a small victory in a long war to protect one of the world's great natural treasures, Lake Baikal. On September 27, the ...

Two small, manned submarines reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest freshwater lake, on Tuesday, Russian news reports said. The "Mir-1" and "Mir-2" submersibles descended 1.05 miles to ...

Since the 33rd session, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN received information about the re-opening of the Baikalsk Paper and Pulp Mill (BPPM) and its likely impacts on the Outstanding Universal ...

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Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal. The deep underwater telescope, ...

Summary of previous deliberations: At its twenty-second session (June 1998), the Bureau was informed that a number of laws for the national protection of the Lake existed and that the Duma had adopted ...