Russia is sinking ever deeper into economic dependence on China. Raw-material projects in the Far East and Siberia are ...

Russian scientists have deployed a giant telescope into the frigid depths of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia to search for the tiniest known particles in the universe. The telescope, Baikal-GVD, is ...

A group of Russians completed an icy swim across Lake Baikal in Siberia on Wednesday in an effort to draw attention to ecological threats facing the world's largest freshwater lake. The four men and ...

"I've had the idea since I left Russia," said Pike, who lived and studied in that country for two years while on an academic exchange. One of those years was spent in Irkutsk (Eugene's Russian "Sister ...

Discover the world's largest freshwater lakes. Lake Baikal (Russia) is the deepest and largest by volume. Lake Superior ...

A circle in thin ice in Lake Baikal, Russia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 19 crewmember on the International Space Station. Late in April 2009, astronauts aboard the station ...

The giant lake has been shrinking since last autumn, when for the first time in 60 years its levels dropped almost to a critical mark of about 40 centimeters within a year’s time MOSCOW, February ...

Despite the fact that the Great Lakes Aquarium has just opened its doors, it is already planning the next three summers of changing exhibits. * Summer 2001 -- Hunters of the Sky, a hands-on look at ...

1998: World Heritage Centre monitoring mission; 2001: Joint UNESCO/IUCN Reactive Monitoring mission; 2005: Joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring mission; 2011: Joint UNESCO/IUCN Mission ...

Yegor Lesnoi is cleaning up the bottom of Lake Baikal for the third year in a row, and does so in his spare time and absolutely for free. He makes money by making advertisements and documentaries.

July 1997: World Heritage Centre mission; 1998: World Heritage Centre monitoring mission; September 2001, October 2005 and December 2023: joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring missions; ...