Ever wondered what silence looks like? This is Siberia… waking up. The sun creeps over the Altai Mountains, lighting up a ...

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 ...

It had rained the night before and the rouge pathways that serve as roads on Lake Baikal’s largest island were a sloppy, muddy mess. A van in front of us filled with Chinese tourists — one of a dozen ...

The strange ice rings of Lake Baikal in Siberia appear to form as a result of warm clockwise currents of water under the surface, scientists have said. The discovery goes some way to explaining the ...

IRKUTSK, Russia, Sept. 9 (UPI) --Russia's Lake Baikal, the deepest body of freshwater on earth, is becoming a swamp due to pollution, ecologists warned. Scientists meeting in Irkutsk, Russia, near ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over southern Siberia and the world’s largest freshwater lake: Lake Baikal. Imaged on 14 March 2017, this deep lake is covered by ice. The entire lake is ...

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 ...

For several decades now, the world's largest freshwater lake held a mystery that left scientists scratching their heads. Lake Baikal, located in Russia's frigid Siberia, freezes over every winter. But ...

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 across ...

LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — The ice rumbled and then shook underfoot. No one had warned Véronique Messina about that. Ms. Messina, a French speech therapist working in Cambodia, came to Lake Baikal in ...