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 ...
Lake Baikal, in the southern part of eastern Siberia, Russia, is among the oldest existing freshwater lakes on Earth, thought to date back around 25 million years, according to the Unesco World ...
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 ...
MOSCOW, December 30. /TASS/. The Russian government set the maximum and minimum water levels in the Baikal Lake in 2018-2020. The regular maximum and minimum water levels in Baikal would be 457 ...
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 ...
VLADIVOSTOK, October 14. /TASS/. The shrinking of Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest freshwater reserve in the world, is connected with climate changes in the Asian region, characterized by less ...
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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 ...
Amidst relentless extremes, life not only endures, but flourishes in extraordinary ways. In the heart of Russia lies Lake Baikal – the deepest, and oldest lake on the planet. It’s covered in ice, up ...