Lake Baikal in Siberia stands as one of Earth’s most astonishing natural wonders. Its staggering depth—reaching over 5,300 feet (1,600 meters)—holds more water than all of North America’s Great Lakes ...

Desolate wilderness surrounds the giant Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest and most voluminous lake on earth. Photo courtesy of Flickr user mrullmi No lake is more lake than Lake Baikal. Set deep within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture taken by an underwater vehicle of a fragment of mud volcano at the bottom of Lake Baikal. A robot deployed to the bottom ...

Tourists taking photos on the clean ice of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.Credit... Supported by By Anton Troianovski Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev Usually it’s foreigners who cavort at the world’s ...

Longer than England, almost as deep as the Grand Canyon, Russia's Lake Baikal is one of the world's greatest aquatic wonders, writes Bryce Stewart. But it's a fragile paradise: the limpid waters are ...

Researchers are studying the impact of climate change and environmental toxins on the lake's fauna. They addressed the question of how Baikal amphipods that fulfill important ecological functions in ...

Some places on Earth hold stories older than humanity itself. One such place is Lake Baikal in Siberia. This enormous lake has existed for 25 million years, making it the oldest freshwater lake on the ...

Scientists have submerged a giant telescope nearly a mile underwater in Russia's Lake Baikal. The telescope is hunting for neutrinos: tiny, neutral particles that are abundant but hard to detect. Most ...

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Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal. The deep underwater telescope, ...

Desolate wilderness surrounds the giant Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest and most voluminous lake on earth. Photo courtesy of Flickr user mrullmi No lake is more lake than Lake Baikal. Set deep within ...