Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world (by volume) and the world's deepest lake. Somewhat crescent shaped, it is in the southern Siberia area of Russia. In 1996 it was declared a ...

Lake Baikal is not only the largest, deepest, and oldest lake in the world, but houses around 2,000 unique known species of animal that are not found anywhere else on Earth.

That's because Lake Baikal is the deepest in the world, with a maximum depth of 5,387 feet (1,642 meters). Lake Baikal's position atop a continental rift explains its plunging depths. Here, Earth's ...

Lake Baikal W0zny. Lake Baikal is the world’s oldest and deepest lake. It’s at least 20 million years old, and roughly a mile deep at its lowest point.

The world’s deepest lake is Lake Baikal, situated in southern Siberia, Russia. Also known as a rift lake, Lake Baikal has a ...

Baikal's high biodiversity includes over 3,600 plant and animal species, most of which are endemic to the lake. World's deepest lake Baikal in peril, scientists warn | The Daily Star Skip to main ...

Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest, deepest lake, is feeling the temperature of human-induced climate change. Situated in southern Siberia, Baikal occupies one of the fastest warming regions on the ...

The world’s 16th deepest lake, Tajikistan’s Sarez Lake, is only a century old. In 1911, an earthquake caused a 3.1-mile landslide to block the Murghab River, creating the 1,600-foot-deep lake.

The Committee inscribed Lake Baikal as the most outstanding example of a freshwater ecosystem on the basis of natural criteria (vii), (viii), (ix) and (x). It is the oldest and deepest of the world´s ...

ON LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — A glass orb, the size of a beach ball, plops into a hole in the ice and descends on a metal cable toward the bottom of the world’s deepest lake. Then another, and another.