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Lake BaikalArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml/list.htmlRIA Novosti,IRKUTSK, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Rescuers at Lake Baikal have been unable to evacuate a sick Belarusian tourist because of his considerable weight, Global life lessons - 20 Aug 2007 ic Wales,Mr Pritchard, also 38, added, “We were in Siberia and I decided to swim in the icy Lake Baikal. Now I usually swim off the Pembrokeshire coast so I thought Green Siberian enclave bets on its clear waters - Aug 17, 2007 Financial Times Deutschland,With Lake Baikal's astonishing list of superlatives - the world's oldest lake at 25m years, its deepest at 1637 metres, and largest by volume with more than Natural Oil In Baikal - Aug 15, 2007 innovations report,The possibility that natural oil could get into Lake Baikal caused the transfer of the projected “Eastern Siberia – the Pacific Ocean� oil-pipe line father Monaco prince gets Russian seals - Aug 16, 2007 BBC News,The mammals - unique to Lake Baikal - were presented to Prince Albert II by Irkutsk regional governor Alexander Tishanin during the monarch's holiday. Baikal Lake, The Blue Gem Of Barren Siberia - Aug 9, 2007 Bernama,Anggara's water flows non-stop for 365 days each year, though the "father" Lake Baikal is frozen during winter. The bus passed through lonely roads and when One Welsh family’s year-long amazing around-the-world adventure - Aug 19, 2007 ic Wales,...“We were in Siberia and I decided to swim in the icy, 5277ft deep Lake Baikal – the world’s deepest,� said Joe. “Now, I usually swim off the Pembrokeshire Prince Albert Gets A Surprising Gift From Russian Governor - Aug 17, 2007 AHNThe nerpa seal pups, which are unique to Lake Baikal, will now have a new home in Monaco's Oceanographic Museum. Albert, 49, promised he would "take great Travel To Russia - Baikal Lake - Aug 2, 2007 أرابياOne of the most spectacular and unspoiled places on earth, which attracts tourists worldwide, is lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world. Russia, European volunteers clear of litter 25 km of Baikal shore - Aug 7, 2007 ITAR-TASS,The problem of impurity of Lake Baikal shores in the popular vacationing places is caused by the major share of unorganised tourism on the lake so far. Book review: A quest to see the world's oldest, largest lake - Aug 11, 2007 Savannah Morning News,Siberia's Lake Baikal, just north of Mongolia, is truly one of a kind. Unlike the Great Lakes of North America, which were scooped out of the earth by Biggest Great Lake may go to record lows - Aug 16, 2007 Independent Online,Lakes Erie and Ontario are the lower of the five, which make up the world's second-largest body of unfrozen, fresh water behind Russia's deep Lake Baikal. Art spotlight: Russia -- a photographic journey - Aug 10, 2007 Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),His stunning color photos (shown is "Misha and Vladimir," taken at a private zoo at Lake Baikal in 2003) document a country undergoing dramatic economic and Facts about Lake Superior - Jul 28, 2007 MLive.com,..._Volume: 3 quadrillion gallons, 10 percent of world's fresh surface water, behind only Lake Baikal in Russia and Lake Tanganyika in Africa. 2 Italian tourists killed, 8 people injured in car crash in Siberia - Aug 4, 2007 International Herald Tribune,AP MOSCOW: Two Italian tourists were killed and several others injured Saturday when their bus overturned on an island on Siberia's Lake Baikal, Protester killed in ‘neo-Nazi’ attack - Jul 23, 2007 Hindu,The Angarsk camp, about 4200 km east of Moscow near Lake Baikal, may have been targeted because some of the protesters had links to Anti-Fa, the movement Four dead in Siberian plastics plant blast - Aug 13, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,The Sayanskhimplast plant at Sayansk, about 270 kilometres from Irkutsk on the shores of Lake Baikal, is one of Russia's largest PVC producers, Russian Nuclear Protester Killed in Siberia - Jul 21, 2007 New York Times,...who were living in the camp to protest nuclear processing in Angarsk, a city near Lake Baikal, more than 3000 miles east of Moscow. Attack on green protesters leaves one dead in Siberia - Jul 21, 2007 Euronews.net,The environmentalist group has been protesting outside the nuclear reprocessing plant since July 14. The site is about 100 kilometres from Lake Baikal, Two Italian tourists die in car crash in Siberia - Aug 4, 2007 RIA Novosti,IRKUTSK, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Two Italian tourists died when their bus overturned on an island on Lake Baikal in East Siberia Saturday morning when en Attack on nuclear demonstrators in Russia leaves 1 dead - Jul 21, 2007 Times of India,Angarsk is located about 100 kilometres from the southern tip of lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake and a symbol for some of Russia's Siberia: Activist killed in Neo-nazi attack on anti-nuclear Camp - Jul 21, 2007 Bay Area Indymedia,The camp had been established on July 15 to protest against a planned international centre for enrichment of uranium in the city of Angarsk near Lake Baikal Nazis Attack Anti-Nuke Camp - Jul 25, 2007 Pacific Free Press,The site is within the boundaries of the town of Angarsk, 30 km. from Irkutsk and 100 km. from Lake Baikal, which is the world’s deepest lake and classed by Russia: Notes From Irkutsk and Poronaysk - Aug 4, 2007 Global Voices Online,...by Veronica Khokhlova ([Lake Baikal]). The landscape is almost like in [Sochi], only the atmosphere is different and the water is cold. Police seize three more suspects in attack on nuclear protesters - Jul 31, 2007 RIA Novosti,...carrying baseball bats and metal rods attacked the camp in Angarsk, near Lake Baikal, which was protesting against nuclear waste imports into Russia. Police detain 20 suspects in attack on nuclear protestors in Siberia - Jul 23, 2007 RIA Novosti,On Saturday, attackers wearing face masks and wielding baseball bats and metal rods raided a camp of environmental activists near Lake Baikal, From London to Mongolia - journalist's 7000-mile crazy car race is ... - Aug 16, 2007 HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk,..."We caught up with my mother and fiancée in Siberia and saw Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake, which was one of the highlights and the Running for clean water - Aug 16, 2007 University Daily Kansan,Chervenak said she also stayed near Lake Baikal while she was in Russia. Although it’s the largest freshwater lake in the world, Chervenak said it wasn’t Paris in Siberia? - Aug 11, 2007 Vail Daily News,The next day we charter a taxi cab to drive us to Lake Baikal, about an hour away. This is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world and has more Changing Lake Superior frustrates boaters, mystifies scientists - Jul 30, 2007 Ironwood Daily Globe,...--Volume: 3 quadrillion gallons, 10 percent of world's fresh surface water, behind only Lake Baikal in Russia and Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Summoning spirits in Siberia - Jul 25, 2007 RussiaToday,Lake Baikal is the deepest fresh water lake on Earth. The Shamans from the Irkutsk Region gather on one of the islands to discuss the future of their Russia: Nuke fuel attacks are neo-Nazi - Jul 24, 2007 United Press InternationalThe perpetrators allegedly donned face masks and used metal rods and baseball bats in the Angarsk camp, near Lake Baikal. The plant reprocesses uranium for Neo-Nazis behind attack on nuclear protestors in Siberia -police - Jul 24, 2007 RIA Novosti,...of environmental activists in the city of Angarsk, near Lake Baikal, who were there protesting nuclear waste processing at a Siberian chemical plant. Russian government calls for higher travel insurance coverage - Aug 16, 2007 RIA Novosti,The plane had flown from Moscow to the Siberian city, a popular tourist destination close to Lake Baikal. A total of 170 people died when a Tu-154 operated Prince Albert II of Monaco to hunt stag in East Siberia - Aug 16, 2007 RIA Novosti,After his trip across Lake Baikal, the Prince of Monaco will head to the town of Tiksi, in the Republic of Yakutia, and further to the Kamchatka Peninsula One Killed, Several Injured, In Attack Against Russian ... - Jul 21, 2007 HULIQ,The plant is located about 100 kilometers from Lake Baikal, one of the world's largest sources of fresh water. The Murder of a Russian Activist - Aug 1, 2007 TIME...process nuclear waste in the town 100 km (62 miles) from Lake Baikal — the deepest freshwater lake in the world and Russia's finest environmental jewel. Environmentalists Beaten, One Dead - Jul 22, 2007 The Moscow Times,The plant is right outside Angarsk, a city of 260000 located 100 kilometers west of the southern tip of Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake and Fake steamed dumplings scandal prompts crackdown on bad news - Aug 5, 2007 Times Online,A year earlier a newspaper published a story citing a Chinese businessman as saying that water from Lake Baikal, in Russia, would be imported to Beijing. Fake dumpling story forces official apology - Aug 5, 2007 Times Online,A year earlier, a newspaper published a story citing a Chinese businessman as saying water from Russia’s Lake Baikal would be imported to Beijing. Give Russia the Arctic and look forward to another toxic disaster - Aug 4, 2007 Times Online,...now largely a toxic desert - and turning the world’s deepest freshwater lake, Baikal, into a borscht of cadmium and mercury deposits. Nuclear protesters set up new camp in Siberia - Jul 26, 2007 RIA Novosti,The previous camp in Angarsk near Lake Baikal was attacked Saturday by masked people carrying baseball bats and metal rods. One person was killed and seven Trans-Siberian Express is dream ride - Aug 3, 2007 Post-Bulletin,350 miles long, 45 miles wide and a mile deep, Lake Baikal contains 20 percent of all the fresh water on Earth, and 80 percent of the flora and fauna are Protester killed in 'neo-Nazi' attack on eco-camp - Jul 22, 2007 Guardian Unlimited,The Angarsk camp, about 2600 miles east of Moscow near Lake Baikal, may have been targeted because some of the protesters had links to Anti-Fa, the movement Purple reigns - Aug 9, 2007 Ventura County Star (subscription),Then you get out to Lake Baikal and Outer Mongolia — that's unbelievably like an oasis of culture in the middle of nowhere. Then when you get to Vladivostok Attack on nuclear demonstrators in Russia leaves 1 dead - Jul 21, 2007 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),Angarsk is located about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the southern tip of Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake and a symbol of Russia's Cardinal Etchegaray to meet Patriarch Alexy and take part in ... - Aug 6, 2007 Interfax-Religion,Prior to that the cardinal will have an excursion to the Lake Baikal. Yet before going to Siberia, Etchegaray is going to meet Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow Climate Change Threatens Siberian Forests - Aug 5, 2007 DentalPlans.com,Cedar pines at the Khamar-Daban mountain range near Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. (Credit: iStockphoto) In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 Flash in the Pan - Aug 1, 2007 Missoula Independent,I remembered the time in Siberia, when I stumbled out of the mountains one winter night on the shore of Lake Baikal. A sable researcher named Ura invited me More News - Jul 24, 2007 Scranton Times-Tribune,The Seven Underwater Wonders of the World are Palau, the Belize Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, the Northern Red Sea, Lake Baikal, the Great Barrier [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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