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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which environmentalists say is a major pollutant ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Russia's Siberia region are investigating the deaths of 141 seals whose carcasses washed up on the shoreline of the world's deepest lake. The Irkutsk region's government ...

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; ...

Lake Baikal in Eastern Russia, the deepest and oldest lake in the world, is home to 20 percent of the world's unfrozen fresh water. As of August 24, 2015 this lake is facing a crisis with 36 fires ...

Lakes are spooky. That’s something Geo Rutherford knows well. Rutherford is a TikTok sensation with more than 1.7 million followers. Her videos focus on lakes around the world with eerie histories.

1997: World Heritage Centre mission; 1998: World Heritage Centre monitoring mission; 2001 and 2005: joint UNESCO/IUCN Reactive Monitoring missions; 2003: UNESCO/IUCN high‐level mission; 2011: joint ...