Located in southern eastern Siberia, Russia, Lake Baikal holds the title of world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 5,315 feet. It's also one of the Earth's oldest freshwater lakes ...

Lake Baikal, which stretches 31,700 square kilometres, is also the deepest lake in the world, with a water depth of around 1.6 kilometres. However, according to Ted Ozersky, an associate professor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IRKUTSK, December 10. /TASS/. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake rocked Lake Baikal, with earth tremors being felt ion the city of Irkutsk, the press service of the Russian emergencies ministry’s ...