A group of Russians completed an icy swim across Lake Baikal in Siberia on Wednesday in an effort to draw attention to ecological threats facing the world's largest freshwater lake. The four men and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture taken by an underwater vehicle of a fragment of mud volcano at the bottom of Lake Baikal. A robot deployed to the bottom ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's prime minister vowed Tuesday to audit a prospective water bottling plant on the shores of the world's ...

Ever wondered what silence looks like? This is Siberia… waking up. The sun creeps over the Altai Mountains, lighting up a frozen lake like polished glass. Soft pinks. Icy blues. Mountains standing ...

Lake Baikal, located north of Mongolia in Russia, is thought to be the deepest and most ancient lake in the world. People have lived around Lake Baikal for about 40,000 years - since the Upper ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian scientists have deployed a giant telescope into the frigid depths of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia to search for the tiniest known particles in the universe. The telescope, Baikal-GVD, is ...

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 ...