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Marina Rikhvanova - Sep 25, 2008 TIMEBy KRISTA MAHR Four hundred miles (640 km) long and up to a mile (1.6 km) deep, Siberia's Lake Baikal is the world's largest body of fresh water. Russia's Lake Baikal threatened by zinc mine - Sep 8, 2008 Reuters UK,By Olga Petrova LAKE BAIKAL, Russia (Reuters) - Green trees sway on the hilly Russian horizon, rainbows pierce Lake Baikal's grey waters and waves pound a Zinc Deposit Threatens Lake Baikal - Sep 9, 2008 The Moscow Times,10 September 2008By Olga Petrova / ReutersLAKE BAIKAL, Buryatia — Green trees sway on the hilly horizon, rainbows pierce Lake Baikal's gray waters and waves Baikal mini-subs start winter break - Sep 18, 2008 RIA Novosti,NOVOSIBIRSK, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Two mini-subs used to explore the bottom of Lake Baikal in East Siberia have been transferred to the regional Divers find 100-year-old shipwreck in Lake Baikal - Sep 11, 2008 RIA Novosti,September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Divers in Irkutsk have discovered an ancient ship that sank over 100 years ago on the bottom of Siberia's Lake Baikal, Sunken Ship Discovered in Lake Baikal - Sep 12, 2008 Russia-InfoCenter,Scuba divers from Irkutsk discovered an old ship deep in lake Baikal, the largest fresh water lake on our planet. The wooden vessel was detected in the Russia's Lake Baikal threatened by zinc mine - Sep 8, 2008 elEconomista.es,By Olga Petrova LAKE BAIKAL, Russia (Reuters) - Green trees sway on thehilly Russian horizon, rainbows pierce Lake Baikal's greywaters and waves pound a Ammunition cases discovered in Siberia's Lake Baikal - Sep 8, 2008 RIA Novosti,NOVOSIBIRSK, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Researchers studying Siberia's Lake Baikal have discovered boxes containing ammunition dating back to 1920s, Researchers to examine gas trapped in Lake Baikal's depths - Sep 2, 2008 RIA Novosti,NOVOSIBIRSK, September 2 (RIA Novosti) - Researchers studying Siberia's Lake Baikal have said they plan to use the lake to test the potential use of methane House OKs Great Lakes water deal - Sep 25, 2008 Toledo Blade,By volume, they are second only to Russia’s Lake Baikal. “Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes are national jewels, and this [interstate compact] will help Siberian exchange student adjusts to North County life - Sep 18, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune,Lake Baikal, however, is the attraction of which Valya is most proud. “Lake Baikal is the deepest freshwater lake in the world,â€? she said. World’s deepest lake threatened by zinc mine 16/09 18:48 CET - Sep 16, 2008 euronews,The world’s deepest and oldest lake – Russia’s Lake Baikal – is under threat from a nearby zinc mine. Nicknamed the Pearl of Siberia, it holds around a Baikal forum to deal with Europe-Russia-APR integration - Sep 8, 2008 ITAR-TASS,An official at the BEF organising committee has specified that the meeting of the political, business and scientific elites on the shores of Lake Baikal Russian sub sets world record - Jul 29, 2008 News24,Lake Baikal ? A Russian mini-submarine reached the bottom of Lake Baikal on Tuesday, setting a record for the deepest dive in a lake, expedition organisers Southeast African rainfall depends on northern hemisphere - Sep 24, 2008 environmentalresearchweb (subscription),At 1400 m deep, Lake Tanganyika is the second-deepest lake in the world after Lake Baikal. It’s also pretty large – 50 × 750 km – and is sensitive to From Russia, with love - Sep 6, 2008 Illawara Mercury,So I’ve spent a happy 10 days people-watching my way from Siberia’s Lake Baikal to the Russian capital Moscow, and up to Russia’s cultural capital St In the Neighborhood: A rail's-eye view - Sep 4, 2008 Hutchinson News,He bought the dolls at Lake Baikal, Russia, for his granddaughter, and the painting in Mongolia for his grandson. HALSTEAD - A lifetime of travels has taken Vladimir Putin the hero 'saves TV crew from tiger attack' - Aug 31, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,As president Mr Putin redrew a planned oil pipeline route to avoid Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world, and scrapped plans for an Olympic Prince Albert finds new best buddy in Putin - Sep 20, 2008 Times Online,Albert was given two freshwater seal pups from Lake Baikal. They met again last month in St Petersburg, when Putin thanked Albert, a member of the Quake strikes Russia's Siberian region - Aug 28, 2008 Moscow News,MOSCOW (AP) - Russian emergency officials say a powerful earthquake has struck a Siberian region that includes Lake Baikal, but no casualties were Mr Putin orders faster construction of ESPO - Sep 1, 2008 SteelGuru,He said that the pipeline must be laid at a safe distance from Lake Baikal. Kozmino is the final point of the ESPO pipeline, whose first stretch from Tumultuous Ad Market to Test New Ogilvy CEO - Sep 16, 2008 Wall Street JournalIn July, he led a group of academics, businessmen and Chinese and Russian students on an Ogilvy-sponsored train trip to Russia's Lake Baikal for an academic Hyper-Sub Powerboat - Sep 4, 2008 The Future of Things...mission to dive using a manned MIR submersible to a depth of 1680 meters — the very bottom of the world’s deepest lake, Lake Baikal, in Siberia. Leopard Project Moves Pipes Aside - Sep 11, 2008 New York Jewish Times,First, it was to be laid in close proximity to the shores of Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and at its final stage, the pipeline was to cross Norilsk may spin off just one power generator - Sep 8, 2008 Reuters UK,MM: Quote, Profile, Research), which provides energy to Norilsk copper projects located close to Lake Baikal. In 2007 Norilsk owned $7 billion worth of A State School for 30 Bright Children - Sep 4, 2008 The Moscow Times,One former student, Lada Titova, was helping teachers pack for a school trip to Lake Baikal on a recent afternoon. She said that she had got into the Felicity Aston | Pole position - Sep 13, 2008 Livemint,Most people don’t know that Lake Baikal, where I went on an expedition, is the deepest and the oldest freshwater lake on the planet. Glass half full - Sep 12, 2008 St.Petersburg Times.ru,A plate of four types of smoked fish from the salmon family — cisco (omul) from Lake Baikal, sterlet from the River Dvina, salmon from the Baltic Sea, Investors Bet Millions on the Sun - Aug 28, 2008 The Moscow Times,When it was decided to replace the polluting diesel-powered electric station on Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal, the authorities chose a complex system of Siberia's Lake Baikal 'surprisingly clean' despite pollution - Sep 4, 2008 Kazinform,Researchers exploring the depths of Siberia's Lake Baikal have found that its unique ecosystem has kept the water cleaner than previously thought, ELDERS VISIT RUSSIA - Sep 17, 2008 Montsame (subscription),...fait the Historical Museum, memorials of Ulan-Ude city and Buddhism monastery. They stressed satisfaction for their relaxing in a beach of Lake Baikal. Kate`s £10000 Siberian challenge - Sep 16, 2008 Isle of Wight County Press,...staying with local families on the edge of Lake Baikal in Siberia and gazing at the colourful spires of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. Russia Has Lots of Fresh Water But Much of It Isn't Drinkable - Sep 14, 2008 Georgiandaily,In Irkutsk oblast, which is located at the southern edge of Lake Baikal, the largest by volume fresh water body of water in the world, she continues, A Baikal to Arms - Sep 9, 2008 Grist Magazine,Lake Baikal is home to hundreds of unique species, many of them endemic to Baikal. In 2006, an oil pipeline slated to be built within just miles of the lake Tight output capacity presses agro-exports from Central Asia - Sep 11, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),In Central Asia, including the eastern part of Russia’s grain belt that stretches from the Black Sea to Lake Baikal, exporters depend on Black Sea ports Deputy head of Russian environmental watchdog dismissed - Sep 9, 2008 RIA Novosti,He has also spearheaded campaigns over ExxonMobil-led Sakhalin-I, the Kovykta gas field developed by TNK-BP, and a pulp mill next to Siberia's Lake Baikal. Putin Orders Faster Construction of Espo Pipeline - Sep 1, 2008 RedOrbit,Putin pointed at the map and said the pipeline must be laid at a safe distance from Lake Baikal. Putin arrived at Kozmino after visiting the Ussuri nature International news briefs: Russian Evangelicals urge ban on ‘South ... - Sep 4, 2008 The Olympian,Researchers exploring the depths of Siberia's Lake Baikal have found that its unique ecosystem has kept the water cleaner than previously thought, Air and Groundwater Pollution in an Agricultural Region of the ... - Sep 9, 2008 RedOrbit,Iwata, H.; Tanabe, S.; Ueda, KU; Tatsukawa, R. Persistent Organochlorine Residues in Air, Water, Sediments, and Soils from the Lake Baikal Region, Russia; 세계 최대 담수호 ë°”ì?´ì¹¼, ‘ì?¸ê°„ì?˜ 욕심’으로 파괴ë?˜ë‚˜ - Sep 8, 2008 스í?¬ì¸ ë?™ì•„,...번ì—=ìµœì •ì•„ ë?™ì•„ë‹·ì»´ 기ìž? cja0917@donga.com Lake Baikal, also known as the "Blue Eye of Siberia", is the deepest and oldest lake in the world. [해외논단]러시아 ì •ì¹˜ì?˜ 진화 - Sep 22, 2008 세계ì?¼ë³´,The 2500-mile frontier with China is a demographic challenge; east of Lake Baikal, 6.8 million Russians face 120 million Chinese in the provinces along the [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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