Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart. This rift is young and active - widening by about four millimetres per year.

Lake Baikal, in the southern part of eastern Siberia, Russia, is among the oldest existing freshwater lakes on Earth, thought to date back around 25 million years, according to the Unesco World ...

The Lake Baikal, located in Siberia, Russia, is the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 5,387 feet.

With 20 per cent of the world’s fresh water, Lake Baikal is the largest fresh water expanse on the planet. Lake Baikal is more than 1,600 metres deep in some areas.

Lake Baikal continues to be negatively affected by numerous factors that significantly impact the property’s ecological condition. The legislation issued in 2022 for the 2022-2023 period continues to ...

China has announced an ambitious plan to build a water pipeline from Lake Baikal in Siberia to Beijing, aiming to address its growing water shortages. Lake Baikal, known for being the world’s deepest ...

Mysterious ice rings have been forming on Lake Baikal in Siberia since at least the 1960s and it has taken scientists decades to figure out how these bizarre formations are created.

In June, a memorial to the Polish exiles killed during the 1866 Baikal Insurrection was destroyed in Rechka Mishikha, one of several tiny villages perched on the southern shore of Lake Baikal that ...

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 ...