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

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

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

the transition zone between the world’s highest commercially navigable lake and the world’s largest salt flat. Scientists have long suspected that Poopó would someday be choked with sediment ...

Concern has grown over the appearance of the spectacular body of water, which has seen a proliferation of tiny organisms ...

Created by flooding entire villages and forests, this enormous reservoir completely reshaped the landscape, forcing thousands of people to relocate while generating power and transforming ...

One of the world's largest deserts was once home to a vast lake and river system, an international team revealed in research ...

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has funded thousands of projects to combat pollution and invasive species, receiving ...

The team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Bowling Green State University, for example, recently carried out a study that identified Microcystis, a type of algae abundant in Lake ...

That, he says, springs no surprise why the world’s second largest freshwater lake is brownish. And overshadowing approximately 80 per cent rainfall water feeding Lake Victoria, effects of ...