The diverse biota of Lake Baikal, the world's largest lake, will come under severe pressure as the climate becomes warmer and wetter, because the food web relies on a long period of ice cover to ...

Nature has the power to boost our mental and physical well-beings in an instant. There is a sense of rejoice and delight in beholding nature around the world. Earth has so many magnificent places yet ...

Baikal lake becomes shallow, water and heat supply to neighboring city under threat ULAN-UDE, January 27. /TASS/. Commercial fishing might be paralyzed in Baikal if the water level in the lake ...

Vladimir Putin went fishing at Russia's Lake Baikal in Siberia and warned that the world's deepest freshwater lake, has extremely high pollution levels. Lake Baikal is a UNESCO World Heritage site, ...

IRKUTSK, Russia -- Environmentalists in Russia's Far East have been celebrating a small victory in a long war to protect one of the world's great natural treasures, Lake Baikal. On September 27, the ...

The State Party submitted a report on 7 March 2007, which responded to some of the recommendations of the Committee’s Decisions made at its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006). a) Baikal Law and the Central ...