It had rained the night before and the rouge pathways that serve as roads on Lake Baikal’s largest island were a sloppy, muddy mess. A van in front of us filled with Chinese tourists — one of a dozen ...

Lake Baikal, in southern Siberia, is no ordinary body of water. More than 25 million years old, the lake people call the “Blue Eye of Siberia” is the world’s oldest, deepest and largest freshwater ...

Ever wondered what silence looks like? This is Siberia… waking up. The sun creeps over the Altai Mountains, lighting up a frozen lake like polished glass. Soft pinks. Icy blues. Mountains standing ...

The strange ice rings of Lake Baikal in Siberia appear to form as a result of warm clockwise currents of water under the surface, scientists have said. The discovery goes some way to explaining the ...

This mesmerizing photograph captures the icy wilderness of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest and oldest freshwater lake, ...

This article was written as part of the Train to Copenhagen project, aimed at raising awareness of climate change in advance of the climate talks in Denmark in December. For more information about the ...

Russian authorities say Western sanctions have made it impossible to implement their plan to remove toxic waste from the watershed of Lake Baikal. The proposed solution: a cheaper method that a ...

The titanic debate over a Siberian lake that's led thousands of Russians to call on the Hollywood star to #saveourbaikal. 1 Lake Baikal is a crescent-shaped body of water in the heart of Siberia that ...

Text.: Holocene climate, environmental change, and Neolithic biocultural discontinuity in the Baikal region / Dustin White and Andrew Bush -- Radiocarbon dating of Middle Holocene culture history in ...