China has announced an ambitious plan to build a water pipeline from Lake Baikal in Siberia to Beijing, aiming to address its ...

In the icy depths of Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake, a robotic expedition has uncovered stunning geological secrets that were previously hidden beneath the surface ...

The Lake Baikal, located in Siberia, Russia, is the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 5,387 feet.

Lake Baikal is the world’s largest, oldest, and most biotically diverse lake – but climate change could soon change all that. Lake Baikal’s surface area is larger than Denmark, and because it reaches ...

Lake Baikal is the world’s deepest lake and the world’s largest drinking water reservoir, containing about 20% of the globe’s drinking water.

Lake Baikal’s largely clear ice supports large mats of algae that grow underneath. Credit: Sergey Pesterev/CC BY-SA 2.0 She and her colleagues eventually synthesized the existing data, and in ...

BOLSHIYE KOTY, Russia – Containing one-fifth of the world’s freshwater, Lake Baikal has stood the test of time–paper mills, an influx of tourists, and now a proposed uranium enrichment facility. But ...

Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest and one of its oldest lakes, offers an unparalleled natural laboratory for studying sediment geochemistry and microbial ecology. Its sediments encapsulate a ...

“80% of the creatures that live in Baikal can only be found there, and they have the only exclusively freshwater seal in the world. We have no idea how it even got there in the middle of Siberia.” ...