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 ...

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 ...

Dubbed the “Galápagos of Russia,” Baikal hosts over 3,000 ... who can spot unusual sponges, fish species, and crustaceans. For scientists, the lake offers a precious window into evolutionary ...

Located in southern eastern Siberia, Russia, Lake Baikal holds the title ... These include the Golomyanka, a translucent oil-rich fish, the Omul fish, Baikal sturgeon and the microscopic Epischura ...

He discovers a new species of fairy shrimp (Branchipus grubii), while his dissertation on Livonian fish from the ... re back by the shores of Lake Baikal, they examine the fauna from adjacent lakes ...

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 ...

In my previous column I described the system of design for icebreaking steamers that was worked out in the 1880s by naval ...

Lake Baikal, located in Russia’s frigid Siberia, freezes over every winter. But the ice sheet that forms on the lake isn’t perfect, and strange rings and holes in the ice are regularly seen ...

Russian environmental and scientific circles have repeatedly expressed their concerns about Mongolia’s plans to build three dams at rivers that feed Lake Baikal, the world’s largest and ...

TASS/. Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake located in Russia, has still not frozen over amid a relatively warm winter, according to images taken by the Russian meteorological satellite Meteor-M.