Russian Far East's Lake Baikal is the oldest and deepest freshwater reserve in the world. The lake was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m ...

It takes four days to reach Irkutsk Station, more than 5,000 kilometres away from Moscow. With its traditional homes, decorated with delicate lace-like wood trim, the capital of East Siberia is ...

Lake Baikal, the world's deepest, offers astounding views along its shoreline - and winter tours of its frozen expanse have become increasingly popular. With some trepidation, Oleg Boldyrev walked ...

Lake Baikal in south-east Siberia, the deepest lake in the world at 1,700 m, contains 20% of all fresh running water on the planet, making it the single largest reservoir. The lake contains an ...

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 ... concentrations of microplastics in the water of the world’s largest and oldest freshwater lake is of the same order ...

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, but ...

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 ...

Alexei V. Kouraev, Elena A. Zakharova, Frédérique Rémy, Andrey G. Kostianoy, Michail N. Shimaraev, Nicholas M. J. Hall, Andrey Ya. Suknev Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 3 (2016), pp.