LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — Along the shores of a lake considered deeper and older than any other, there is a place some locals regard as sacred. It is here, in Lake Baikal’s Olkhon Island settlement, that ...

Lake Baikal, Russia’s ‘Sacred Sea,’ has been a lifeline for inhabitants of southern Siberia for thousands of years, thanks to its pristine water and rich fauna. The gigantic ancient lake, bigger than ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Russia's Siberian south, near the border of Mongolia, the world's largest freshwater lake is shrinking. The surrounding communities ...

Russian authorities say Western sanctions have made it impossible to implement their plan to remove toxic waste from the watershed of Lake Baikal. The proposed solution: a cheaper method that a ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which environmentalists say is a major pollutant ...

Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal. The deep underwater telescope, ...

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 ...