More than 300 streams and rivers feed into Lake Baikal, but the Angara River is the only outlet. It carries out about 60 cubic km (15.8 trillion gallons) of water per year into the Yenisei River.

There is a story behind why this rock is called the "Rock of Love." Lake Baikal, an enormous body of water, is fed by 336 ...

The river enters Lake Baikal through the Selenga Delta, a wetland of internationally recognised importance. The delta is crucial to the health of Lake Baikal. Its shallow waters are a key spawning ...

The Selenga is itself an important ecosystem. Anson Mackay. By far the largest and most important of the 350-plus rivers that flow into Lake Baikal is the Selenga River, which contributes almost ...

Today, Lake Baikal contains some 20 percent of the earth’s lake and river water, ... Lake Baikal features 27 islands, including one 45 miles in length called Olkhon, ...

Mongolia plans to build dams for a series of 25 new hydroelectric plants along the Selenga river, the source of half the water that flows into Baikal. The new dams would cut the flow of water ...

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 ...

Lake Baikal is not only the largest, deepest, and oldest lake in the world, but houses around 2,000 unique known species of animal that are not found anywhere else on Earth.

Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest and oldest freshwater lake, is facing a troubling transformation as parts of it are turning into swamp-like wetlands. In this video, we explore the environmental ...