Fantastic grottoes on the shore, jeep or ice skating tours, ice fishing and reassuring quiet: these are only some of the joys that make a trip to Lake Baikal in winter worthwhile. Winter is probably ...

An intrepid reporter braves Siberia’s frozen Lake Baikal in search of the fundamental particles that could answer some of the deepest questions in physics. About 25 million years ago, Earth parted in ...

Located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, Lake Baikal was formed as an ancient rift valley and is home to 3,600 plant and animal ...

In Siberia near Lake Baikal, clouds of smoke pass high above the water as the biting odour of forest fires is in the air. Before this year, say environmentalists, there had never been such extensive ...

Russia has tightened environmental protection around Lake Baikal amid growing concerns over degradation, with Chinese development and tourism at the heart of recent debates on the nationally treasured ...

The remote northern coast of Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is now available to a few VIP tourists ULAN-UDE, November 24. /TASS/. The remote northern ...