Not only is Siberia's Lake Baikal the world's largest freshwater lake, it's also the only home of the Baikal freshwater seal. A new study indicates that the animals subsist largely on tiny crustaceans ...

This article was written as part of the Train to Copenhagen project, aimed at raising awareness of climate change in advance of the climate talks in Denmark in December. For more information about the ...

Through video tracking and examination of museum specimens, scientists have discovered why Siberia's Lake Baikal seals are thriving when so many other seal populations are suffering from human-caused ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Russia's Siberia region are investigating the deaths of 141 seals whose carcasses washed up on the shoreline of the world's deepest lake. The Irkutsk region's government ...

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

LAKE BAIKAL, near Russia’s border with Mongolia, is, by volume, the biggest body of fresh water on Earth. At 1.6km, it is also the deepest. Several unusual animals call it home, including the world’s ...

MOSCOW, July 6. /TASS/. Later this month, a group of Russian scientists will embark upon an expedition to study Baikal seals, or nerpas - a species of freshwater earless seal endemic to Siberia’s Lake ...

Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to an analysis by a joint ...

This article was written as part of the Train to Copenhagen project, aimed at raising awareness of climate change in advance of the climate talks in Denmark in December. For more information about the ...

Since the 33rd session, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN received information about the re-opening of the Baikalsk Paper and Pulp Mill (BPPM) and its likely impacts on the Outstanding Universal ...