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What’s the World’s Deepest Lake?
Also known as a rift lake, Lake Baikal has a maximum depth of 5,387 feet, making it the world’s largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22-25% of the world’s fresh surface water.
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High microplastics levels found in Russia’s Lake Baikal
The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels ... of microplastics in the water of the world’s largest and oldest freshwater lake is of the same order of magnitude ...
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Satellite images show that Russia’s Lake Baikal remains without solid ice cover
Lake Baikal is the world’s deepest lake and the world’s largest drinking water reservoir, containing about 20% of the globe’s drinking water. The lake was included in UNESCO’s World ...