China has announced an ambitious plan to build a water pipeline from Lake Baikal in Siberia to Beijing, aiming to address its ...

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.

However, there's more to Lake Baikal than just its size. It is the deepest lake on Earth, formed by a continental rift estimated to be 25 to 30 million years old, reaching a maximum depth of 1,642m.

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)) ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. Lake Baikal, Siberian Russia My favorite lake of all time is Lake Baikal, which is truly the strangest lake on the planet. It’s the oldest lake in the world and deepest freshwater lake in the ...

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 ...

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 ...