MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's prime minister vowed Tuesday to audit a prospective water bottling plant on the shores of the world's deepest freshwater lake, a listed world heritage site. Asked by a member ...

1997: World Heritage Centre mission; 1998: World Heritage Centre monitoring mission; 2001 and 2005: joint UNESCO/IUCN Reactive Monitoring missions; 2003: UNESCO/IUCN high‐level mission; 2011: joint ...

Russian environmentalists have condemned a plan by authorities to allow a higher amount of dangerous substances to be dumped into Lake Baikal, which contains about 20 percent of the world's fresh ...

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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, ...

LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — The Lake Baikal ice was the real star even among a gathering of some of Russia’s hockey greats. The ice in the Siberian UNESCO World Heritage site is famously clear, with cracks ...

Summary of previous deliberations: At its twenty-second session (June 1998), the Bureau was informed that a number of laws for the national protection of the Lake existed and that the Duma had adopted ...

Though separated by half the world and wide cultural differences, Russia’s Lake Baikal and Lake Tahoe suffer similar problems caused by human use and visitation. But, as different as the languages ...

Alexei V. Kouraev, Elena A. Zakharova, Frédérique Rémy, Andrey G. Kostianoy, Michail N. Shimaraev, Nicholas M. J. Hall, Andrey Ya. Suknev Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 3 (2016), pp.

ISS019-E-010556 (23 April 2009) — A circle in thin ice in Lake Baikal, Russia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 19 crewmember on the International Space Station. Late in April ...

Alicja Barahona, a 64-year-old ultramarathoner, tackles a unique kind of race. Listvianka, Russia -- The Baikal Ice Marathon is a standard length marathon: 26 miles long. But there is nothing standard ...

I’m Eileen Wray-McCann, for Circle of Blue, and here’s What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water. We begin with a quick survey of water stories around the globe. The United ...