A new year-round resort with zero pollution levels will be developed on Lake Baikal by 2030, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly ...

The environmental condition of the property is deteriorating, notably due to the long-term degradation of the water quality of Lake Baikal, illustrated by the development of unprecedented algal blooms ...

Lake Baikal is the world’s largest, oldest, and most biotically diverse lake – but climate change could soon change all that. Lake Baikal’s surface area is larger than Denmark, and because it reaches ...

Environmental experts and the head of President Vladimir Putin’s Human Rights Council have called on lawmakers to reject a controversial bill that would ease logging restrictions along the shores of ...

As the largest and deepest of freshwater lakes, with a vast volume comprising 20% of the planet's liquid fresh water, one might expect Lake Baikal to be resistant to change. Thus, there was a good ...

Fragments of a mud volcano photographed at depths of 420 feet (130 meters) in Lake Baikal's Goryachinskaya Bay. (Image credit: Lunina et al. (2023)) ...