Earth's oldest lake has a clear winner: Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia. Scientists estimate that this enormous freshwater body is 25 million years old, according to Ted Ozersky, an associate ...

Witness the fascinating geography of Lake Baikal, the deepest and one of the oldest freshwater lakes on Earth, located in Siberia, Russia. This video covers its unique formation, incredible depth ...

This year’s Baikal Ice Marathon was also a trial run for her, ahead of a planned attempt to run the lake’s whole 400-mile length next year with a partner.

Lake Baikal is the world’s largest, oldest, and most biotically diverse lake – but climate change could soon change all that. Lake Baikal’s surface area is larger than Denmark, and because it reaches ...

Baikal, with sunlight penetrating its clear winter ice, has traditionally had a peak in algae productivity in the winter and early spring — yet another unusual feature of this system.

Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest and one of its oldest lakes, offers an unparalleled natural laboratory for studying sediment geochemistry and microbial ecology. Its sediments encapsulate a ...

46 COM 7B.52 Lake Baikal (Russian Federation) (N 754) The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Document WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.3, Recalling Decisions 44 COM 7B.107 and 45 COM 7B.24 adopted at its ...

Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake located in Russia, has still not frozen over amid a relatively warm winter, according to images taken by the Russian meteorological satellite Meteor-M.

Fragments of a mud volcano photographed at depths of 420 feet (130 meters) in Lake Baikal's Goryachinskaya Bay. (Image credit: Lunina et al. (2023)) ...