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

Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume. It is a natural wonder that is thought to be almost 30 million ...

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 ...

Russia’s Lake Baikal covers an area of 12,248 square miles - slightly larger than Belgium - making it the seventh-largest lake by surface area and the second-largest in Eurasia after the Caspian ...

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

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, but ...

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 ...

Russian media reported she swam over 120 meters (400 feet) under the frozen surface of Lake Baikal. If confirmed by the appropriate official organizations, that distance would be a world record.

Romanian Cosmin Crăciun drove approximately 26,000 kilometers from Buzău, southern Romania, to Yakutsk, Russia, the coldest ...

Irkutsk is also the door to spectacular Lake Baikal. Sofia Buntovskaya has nothing but praise for the lake and its pure and perfectly clear water. Her love for this natural Siberian jewel made the ...