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 ...

Lake Baikal The term ‘blood-red lake’ often evokes images of horror or supernatural occurrences, but the truth behind Lake ...

Irkutsk is also the door to spectacular Lake Baikal. Sofia Buntovskaya has nothing but praise for the lake and its pure and perfectly clear water. Her love for this natural Siberian jewel made the ...

Situated in south-east Siberia, 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 ...

There's a blind, white, little creepy fish called golomyankas which is rumored to, if you lift it up out of the depths of Lake Baikal and into the sunlight, it'll just melt in your hand.

The world's freshwater lakes are freezing over for shorter periods of time due to climate change. This shift has major ...

A fish skull bleached brilliant white flashed ... s second largest freshwater lake by volume (after Siberia’s Lake Baikal). Millions of people rely on the lake, which is threatened by climate ...

ST. PETERSBURG, June 17. /TASS/. Lake Baikal should be the epitome of Russian ecotourism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF ...

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 ...

and fish eggs. Also known as the rock sturgeon, the lake sturgeon is one of 27 species of sturgeon, a family of bony fish that found around the world that first appears in the fossil record more ...