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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of ...

Russia’s Lake Baikal covers an area of 12,248 square miles - slightly larger than Belgium - making it the seventh-largest lake by surface area and the second-largest in Eurasia after the Caspian ...

the lake’s ecosystem imbalance and threats to fish spawning areas, subsoil water level lowering in coastal areas fraught with peat bog fires. Since 1962, Baikal’s water level dropped below the ...

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 ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017), pp. 1383-1392 (10 pages) Lake Baikal, Siberia, is the most biodiverse freshwater lake on Earth. However, despite decades of painstaking limnological ...

MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. Russia’s government has earmarked 1.29 billion rubles ($18.9 million) in subsidies to implement a range of measures for protection of the world’s deepest Lake Baikal ...

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