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India Today
February 3, 2018
Skaters glided gracefully across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest freshwater lake, taking in the breathtaking winter scenery while skating across huge sheets of ice dozens of feet thick. The frozen Siberian lake offers a perfectly clear view of the lake bottom as the frozen ice is as clear asÃÂ ...
Nottingham Post
January 29, 2018
+ Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email. A Nottinghamshire plumber is preparing to trek across a frozen Siberian lake for almost a month. Lake Baikal, in Russia, is the oldest, deepest and largest (by volume) lake in the world, where temperatures can drop toÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 28, 2018
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and seven others wounded in a fire that broke out at a hotel on Olkhon Island in Russia's Lake Baikal, local media reported Monday. The fire broke out on Sunday morning in the hotel that hosted eight South Korean nationals, 24 ChineseÃÂ ...
TASS
January 27, 2018
IRKUTSK, January 28. /TASS/. Two people died in a fire that broke out at a tourist facility on Lake Baikal's Olkhon Island, a spokesperson for the Irkutsk Region branch of the Russian Investigative Department told TASS on Sunday. "Two bodies were found, they were badly burnt. Their identity is beingÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 27, 2018
Located in the mountainous Russian region of Siberia, Lake Baikal presents the true peace of wondrous natural beauty: beginning with the hiking paths called the Great Baikal Trail that circle the lake, the astounding wildlife and culminating with dog sledding — which is ever so popular among tourists.
OOSKA News
January 22, 2018
Russian State News Agency TASS reported last week that the water level in Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater body, has dropped six centimeters below the critical mark and that the outlook is negative. Head of Russia's Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring RomanÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 19, 2018
Usually misfortune struck where medical care was rudimentary – tick-bite fever in the Transkei, a broken foot in Laos, gout in Madagascar, concussion in the Carpathians, cracked ribs in several places, bronchitis in several others and a dislocated knee on the northern shore of Lake Baikal. An incidentalÃÂ ...
Realnoe vremya
January 19, 2018
Investors from China are showing a growing interest in Lake Baikal's tourism market as they see business opportunities in an increased number of Chinese tourists in the region. The locals feel uncomfortable: over 50,000 people signed an online petition to ban the Chinese from land purchases aroundÃÂ ...
OOSKA News
January 18, 2018
Water Levels in Russia's Lake Baikal Could Drop 35 Centimeters Below Critical Mark: Expert ÷ Lake Baikal Levels Falls Below Critical Threshold ÷ Study Says Lake Baikal's Low Levels Are Part of a Natural Cycle ÷ Scientific Expedition to Study Lake Baikal Concludes ÷ Russian Government May Lowerà...
TASS
January 17, 2018
MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. The water level in Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater body, has dropped by six centimeters below the critical mark and the outlook is negative, Head of Russia's Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Roman Vilfand said on Tuesday.
TODAYonline
January 12, 2018
BEIJING — A sleepy tourist town on the shores of Siberia's Lake Baikal has become an unlikely lightning rod among Russian nationalists after Chinese investors bought up properties on the town's lakefront. Russian newspapers have inflamed public opinion over the town of Listvyanka, running headlinesÃÂ ...
The Manila Times
January 11, 2018
Song, a businessman from Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, visited Lake Baikal in Russia's southern Siberia in January of 2016 at the invitation of a friend. Once there, he not only was impressed by the magnificent landscape but also by the growing number of Chinese tourists arriving thereÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 11, 2018
Lake Baikal, known as the planet's oldest, deepest and clearest freshwater lake has always been attracted a lot of attention from around the world, and that is not just because of its prominent titles. Enjoy a selection of airy images snapped by Sputnik's photographer at the legendary Siberian lake. In winterÃÂ ...
FourFourTwo
January 6, 2018
According to the Moscow Times, 2,000 tons of ice from Lake Baikal and other lakes nearby were used to make 40 football-related statues, with a chunk of it being used on Ronaldo. The Ledovaya Moskva festival has been taking place since December 29 and runs until January 8, and its sculptures areÃÂ ...
Outlook India
January 6, 2018
We drive to Listvyanka, a small place close to Irkutsk, popularly known as the Gateway to Lake Baikal. Around 300 years ago, the village was tiny with a small post-office; today, it is a major tourist hub, well-known for its lake views and Siberian delicacies. Lake Baikal is one of Russia's great sights: it is theÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
January 4, 2018
Birds from as far as the Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal, Aral Sea and other remote parts of Russia, Kirghiz steppes of Mongolia, Central and southeast Asia, visit the lake to escape the biting cold in their native places. They start their homeward journey with the onset of the summer season. Stay up to date on allÃÂ ...
TASS
December 30, 2017
"The ban on commercial fishing for the Baikal omul embraces the Chivyrkui bay of Lake Baikal and the rivers flowing into it, in the Barguzin River basin, the Sor and Sor-Cherkalovo bays, and in the Selenga River Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosbybolovstvo) said in a press release. "There will beÃÂ ...
Live Science
December 29, 2017
"In the '90s, it was proclaimed that Lake Baikal had such pure water that if you were to take a glass of this water, the water would start to etch the glass," Nyman said, "because water likes ions, and it would just take the ions right out of the glass into solution." Nyman said that this affinity is too powerful forÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 26, 2017
... tag along on one of their trips around the world and learn the secrets to their success. Well, you now have your chance, as Murad and Nataly Osmann recently shared with me every detail of their photo shoot at Russia's Lake Baikal so that you can organize your next Instagram-worthy trip more efficiently.
The Guardian
October 18, 2017
World's deepest lake crippled by putrid algae, poaching and pollution. Lake Baikal in Siberia holds one fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water, but its precious fish stocks are disappearing. Lake Baikal algae. Lake Baikal, a world heritage site, is under threat. Photograph: Oleg Timoshkin/AFP/Getty Images.
RT
December 31, 1999
Skaters have captured video footage of their daring dance on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal - and the world's deepest lake is so perfectly clear you can see stones lining its floor near the shore. The enormous lake in Siberia contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined.
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Should Russia's Lake Baikal be one of your 2018 dream destinations? Perhaps. Business Insider magazine polled travel experts and came up with a breathtaking list of 25 must-see places in the new year. Here are some of the magazine's recommendations made by sources that include Lonely PlanetÃÂ ...
WTHR
December 31, 1999
IRKUTSK, RUSSIAN (NBC NEWS) - Russian divers celebrated the holidays Saturday with a plunge into the frigid waters of a Siberian lake. Sixteen divers put on their suits and scuba gear for something like an underwater party. The waters of Lake Baikal were just a couple of degrees above freezing.
Human Rights Watch
November 21, 2017
Satellite imagery that showing active wildfires (outlined in red) and smoke near the shoreline of Lake Baikal in southern Russia, July 27, 2017.
Telegraph.co.uk
November 18, 2017
They sold frozen fish from Lake Baikal, shiny trinkets from tribesmen, and according to Stanislav, cheap rifles if you knew who to ask. In the ...
Maritime Herald
November 13, 2017
The anthropogenic cause of the mass death of seals at the end of October on Lake Baikal is completely ruled out, the West-Baikal ...
NEWS.com.au
November 4, 2017
The discovery of more than 140 dead seals in Siberia's Lake Baikal has puzzled scientists and led to fears of an epidemic among the rare ...
RT
November 4, 2017
Dozens of dead Baikal earless seals have been found on the shores of the world's deepest lake in the last six days. While an epidemic has ...
Newser
November 4, 2017
The dead seals started appearing along Lake Baikal last weekend, the Irkutsk region's government said in a statement. Most of the seals were ...
The Moscow Times
November 2, 2017
Local residents have begun using the carcasses of more than one hundred dead seals who washed up on the shores of Lake Baikal to feed ...
The Moscow Times
November 1, 2017
Siberian veterinarians say the more than one hundred seals that washed up on the shores of Lake Baikal may have died from hunger, the ...
Phys.Org
November 1, 2017
Around 130 dead seals have washed up on the shores of Russia's Lake Baikal, authorities said Tuesday, as they launched a probe into the ...
BBC News
October 22, 2017
“No, the gold fell into [Lake] Baikal! That's why no-one can ... He brought the train to Irkutsk, a trading city near Lake Baikal. And that's exactly ...
The Hindu
October 22, 2017
Holding one-fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water, Baikal in Russia's Siberia is a natural wonder of “exceptional value to evolutionary ...
The Hindu
October 21, 2017
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 ...
Pulse Nigeria
October 20, 2017
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 ...
Newser
October 20, 2017
Siberia's Lake Baikal—the world's deepest lake at more than 5,500 ... Over the past 15 years, the biomass of omul living in Lake Baikal has ...
Express.co.uk
October 20, 2017
LAKE BAIKAL in Russia is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world and a major international tourist attraction, but experts have ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 19, 2017
Mongolia has proposed several hydroelectric projects that could affect Lake Baikal, across the border in Russia. But the most problematic ones ...
The Guardian
October 19, 2017
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 ...
Motorcycle.com (blog)
October 13, 2017
In 2010, our friends Hubert Kriegel and Chinzo crossed Lake Baikal on their Ural sidecar in the middle of a particularly brutal Russian winter.
Travel+Leisure
October 12, 2017
Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, and second only to Russia's Lake Baikal in volume. (Don't sneeze at ...
The Siberian Times
September 29, 2017
Crescent-shaped Lake Baikal is now the planet's deepest and oldest lake, emerging 25 million years ago on a tectonic crack, an area of 31,722Â ...
Phys.Org
August 4, 2017
Russia's Lake Baikal, the world's deepest freshwater lake, has extremely high pollution levels, President Vladimir Putin warned Friday while ...
UT The Daily Texan
September 8, 2017
The region is known for its environmental significance; Irkutsk State University is near Lake Baikal, the deepest and largest freshwater lake inÃÂ ...
TASS
September 8, 2017
The construction of hydroelectric power chain on the Selenga River, the main tributary of Lake Baikal, and the rivers flowing into Selenga isÃÂ ...
Somerset Live
September 7, 2017
This isn one being cooked at Lake Baikal, Mongolia. Having spent the summer working alongside the future stars of food and drink, as part ofÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
September 7, 2017
... Ocean – more than the next seven largest rivers combined and enough to fill Lake Baikal – the world's deepest lake – in less than four years.
Katoikos.eu
September 6, 2017
It is a popular stop on the Trans-Siberian Express railway, often as a stopover to reach the majestic Lake Baikal, meaning “sacred sea” in theÃÂ ...
The Independent
September 5, 2017
... excursion through Russia, from Vladivostok to Moscow, that passes by endless grasslands and Lake Baikal, the deepest lake on Earth.
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