MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin voiced strong concern Thursday about Mongolia’s plans to build a hydroelectric plant on a river flowing into Lake Baikal, warning it could endanger the ...
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, the ...
MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/. A Russian-Mongolian intergovernmental commission will gather in the first part of 2017 to discuss issues surrounding Mongolia’s planned construction of dams at rivers that ...
Nutrient pollution from outdated sewage-treatment plants degrades water quality in the world’s deepest, oldest lake. Siberia’s Lake Baikal is the world’s largest lake by volume, containing nearly 20 ...
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Mongolian men and women pray and make offerings at an Ovoo near the Lake Khovsgol Ice Festival in Khatgal, Mongolia.Taylor Weidman—LightRocket/Getty Images The little sister of Russia’s better-known ...