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 ...

Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, known as the "Galapagos of Russia." However, the unusual body ...

Golf just got a whole lot cooler. Around 50 golfers gathered on Lake Baikal to compete in the annual Baikal Ice Golf tournament. The Siberian lake is the deepest freshwater lake in the world ...

Imagine a vast lake that could easily engulf the combined water of all the Great Lakes in North America and then some. That's ...

In the depths of Russia lies a lake that holds an impressive number of world records and is so deep that it could hold over ...

Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater ...

The water in Lake Baikal is among the purest in the world. The ecosystem contains hundreds of unique species. The city of Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia is famous for its historic homes, adorned with ...

Economic activity in Mongolia also affects the water level of Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal in south-east Siberia, the deepest lake in the world (1,700 m), contains 20% of all fresh running water on ...

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 ...

Part two of a two-part documentary about Lake Baikal, the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. The film aims to raise awareness of the fragility of its ecosystem.