A ceremonial launch of the Baikal-Gigaton Volume Detector (GVD) telescope, in Russia's Lake Baikal on March 13, 2021. Alexei Kushnirenko\TASS via Getty Images 2021-03-24T11:27:00Z ...

ON LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — A glass orb, the size of a beach ball, plops into a hole in the ice and descends on a metal cable toward the bottom of the world’s deepest lake. Then another, and another.

Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world, ... Vyazhenkov believes that the ban on commercial hunting of the Baikal seals is no solution to the problem because it changes nothing.

Lake Baikal features 27 islands, including one 45 miles in length called Olkhon, while in and around Baikal live more than 1,500 animal species, about 80 percent of which live nowhere else on the ...

BITS ‘N’ PIECESThe oldest and deepest of the world’s lakes, Lake Baikal is situated in south-east Siberia. The lake is more than 5,300 feet deep at its most profound point. With 12,248 ...

The lake is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart. It is also the deepest lake in the world at 1,642 meters.

28 COM 15B.22 Lake Baikal (Russian Federation) The World Heritage Committee, 1. Recalling the recommendation of the report of the monitoring mission in 2001 to include the property on the List of ...

Lake Baikal may be the most biodiverse lake on the planet – amazing considering its relatively cold water temperatures – with more than 1,000 species of plants and 2,500 species of animals. What's ...

The Trans-Siberian, journey to another Russia | Lake Baikal. Admire the majestic lake, the world’s largest fresh water reserve, sullied by Soviet industry ...