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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lake Baikal is undergoing its gravest crisis in recent history, experts say, as the government bans the catching of a signature fish that has lived in the world's deepest lake for centuries but is ...

Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest and oldest freshwater lake, is facing a troubling transformation as parts of it are turning into swamp-like wetlands. In this video, we explore the environmental ...

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Let’s dive in. Siberia’s Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, as well as the largest body of freshwater on the planet, containing more freshwater than all five of North America’s ...

which allows their fossils to be preserved in the lake mud. As with most plants and animals found in Baikal, these diatoms are mainly endemic – that is, they are found nowhere else in the world.

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. Although it is ...

Lake Baikal is undergoing its gravest crisis in recent history, experts say, as the government bans the catching of a signature fish that has lived in the world's deepest lake for centuries but is ...