Mr Putin said the route, which would have passed close to Lake Baikal, should move 40km (25 miles) north. Environmentalists who feared the eastern pipeline would pose a risk to Lake Baikal's unique ...

Climate correspondent Chico Harlan and photojournalist Esther Mbabazi reported on the controversy over the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline — and the pipeline’s impact on ...

At the darkened lake floor, with only the craft's lights to illuminate their surroundings, they saw mud volcanoes, methane seeps, and oil seeps. And in all these places, they found life. Lake Baikal ...

HOIMA DISTRICT, WESTERN UGANDA—Lightning forks overhead as rain from the Congo rolls in across Lake Albert. A foreman on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, or EACOP, ushers workers under a ...