Lake Baikal is more than 1,600 metres deep in some areas. The water in Lake Baikal is among the purest in the world. The ecosystem contains hundreds of unique species. The city of Irkutsk in ...

UNESCO declared Baikal a World Heritage Site in 1996. CHECK OUT: What’s America’s Biggest River? While the deepest lake in the world resides in Russia, there are other deep lakes scattered ...

"It’s been a warm winter in Baikal, as observed from space," Roscosmos said in comments to its posted pictures MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake located in Russia ...

Lake Baikal was one of the world’s oldest lakes ... researchers discovered that warm eddies (circular motion of water) deep below the frozen lake’s surface created a warm flow of water in ...

In the darkness of the ocean depths, Chinese scientists are hoping to solve one of the enduring mysteries of the universe.

We often talk about water and how important it is to make sure it is clean and unpolluted. But lakes usually fall through the ...

Lake Baikal in south-east Siberia ... and the Aral Sea located at the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (up to 50 meters deep), on the list of the world’s largest fresh-water lakes facing ...

Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater ...

And that’s the world water roundup. We focus this week on another great body of water – this one in Russia, where Siberian authorities have suspended construction of a controversial bottling plant on ...

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 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 ...