An curved arrow pointing right. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest and deepest freshwater lake in the world. It is frozen for up to five months a year and its ice is so thick cars often drive ...

Earth's oldest lake has a clear winner: Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia ... Glaciers score a pocket in the landscape and deposit chunks of ice that eventually melt and fill the depression.

According to Rough Guides, this species, known as the Baikal Seal, became trapped here when the last Ice Age retreated ... during summer. The lake's crystal-clear waters, with visibility sometimes ...

Golf just got a whole lot cooler. Around 50 golfers gathered on Lake Baikal to compete in the annual Baikal Ice Golf tournament. The Siberian lake is the deepest freshwater lake in the world ...

These include the Golomyanka, a translucent oil-rich fish, the Omul fish, Baikal sturgeon and the microscopic Epischura plankton that keep the water clear. The land surrounding the lake is known ...

Southeast Siberia is home to the world's oldest lake, with scientists estimating that the massive body of water dates back 25 million years. As well as being the world's oldest, Lake Baikal ...

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels of microscopic plastic particles and fibres that most likely come from packaging and fishing nets. Research published in ...

Russian freediver Yekaterina Nekrasova is believed to have set a new world record in under-ice swimming. Russian media reported she swam over 120 meters (400 feet) under the frozen surface of Lake ...