Lake Baikal, located in the heart of Siberia, holds a secret beneath its waters that rivals the depths of the oceans. At ...

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 picture— taken by photographer Kristina Makeeva and also shared by NASA —shows bubbles of methane in Lake Baikal, in the mountainous region of Siberia, Russia, rising to the surface.

Lake Baikal is located in mountainous Siberia, in southern Russia. Google Maps “We already see changes in population numbers of different types of zooplankton which eat the algae,” Swann said.

Lake Baikal features 27 islands, including one 45 miles in length called Olkhon, while in and around Baikal live more than 1,500 animal species, about 80 percent of which live nowhere else on the ...

It is one of the world’s most grueling races, 26 miles over Siberia’s Lake Baikal, amid cracking ice and shifting weather. The race attracts a global cast of athletes who want to test their ...

Lake Baikal is too gigantic to capture in a single frame or thought. It holds one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, stretches 400 miles and has 1,300 miles of coastline.

Strange ice rings in Siberia's Lake Baikal have puzzled scientists for decades, but now the mystery apparently has been solved. The answer: The rings are caused by warm, circular currents of water ...

image: News regarding the wildfires on the shores of Lake Baikal is spotty at best, but several sources have blamed the recent glut of outbreaks to the thawing of the permafrost in that region of ...

The largest town on Lake Baikal, with a population of 23,000, it looks out on to the cold beauty of the deep-blue water, surrounded by peaks capped with snow even in summer.