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

Southeast Siberia is home to the world's oldest lake, with scientists estimating that the massive body of water dates back 25 ...

A Lake Older Than Mountains Lakes, like mountains, can last millions of years. However, most lakes are short-lived in geological time. Only 20 ancient lakes exist today, but Lake Baikal is the oldest.

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 oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse lake.

Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater ...

There are many cities in the world smaller than Lake Baikal. To put its size in perspective, let’s take a look at the famous Loch Ness (Scotland). 755 feet of maximum depth, 23 miles long ...

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 ...

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 ...

A World Lakes Conference in Japan’s Otsu put Lake Baikal, along with Lake Okeechobee in the United States (with a depth of three meters), Lake Balaton in Hungary (with a depth of 12 meters ...

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 ...