A frozen river near Lake Baikal violently broke apart on December 14, after pressure built beneath the ice in eastern Siberia ...

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 ...

President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a long-contested measure allowing limited logging along the shores of Lake ...

The President signed Federal Law On Amendments to Federal Law On Protecting Lake Baikal and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

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 ...

Russia's fish exports are expected to reach 6 billion U.S. dollars by 2025, marking a significant increase compared with 2024, according to the country's fisheries agency. The growth in exports is ...

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 ...

"It’s been a warm winter in Baikal, as observed from space," Roscosmos said in comments to its posted pictures MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake located in Russia, has ...

ISS019-E-010556 (23 April 2009) — 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 ...

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 ...

LAKE BAIKAL, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plunged into the depths of Lake Baikal aboard a mini-submersible on Saturday in a mission that adds a new dimension to his macho ...

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 ...