The Baikal Rift Zone is responsible for the lake’s creation, where the Earth’s crust is slowly pulling apart. This rift valley is a living, breathing geological feature that continues to evolve.

While the term ‘blood-red lake’ might conjure up chilling images, the truth of Lake Baikal’s deep blue waters is equally ...

The East African Rift System bisects the horn of Africa—the Nubian plate to the west moving away from the Somalian plate to the east—before forking down either side of Uganda. The western rift ...

Discover the top five largest lakes across the world according to their area, from those in Africa to North America.

Lake Baikal, the world's deepest, offers astounding views along its shoreline - and winter tours of its frozen expanse have become increasingly popular. With some trepidation, Oleg Boldyrev walked ...

And that’s the world water roundup. We focus this week on another great body of water – this one in Russia, where Siberian authorities have suspended construction of a controversial bottling plant on ...

The Murdoch family had cause to celebrate in the spring of 2019. Patriarch Rupert Murdoch’s sale of Fox entertainment assets to Disney had netted some $12 billion to be split up among his ...

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels of microscopic plastic particles and fibres that most likely come from packaging and fishing nets. Research published in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ever since the era of post-cold war globalisation began, a succession of shocks have provoked dark ...

Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes shut down rift rumors while attending the US Open tennis championships on Sunday. The pair were photographed hugging at the event at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New ...

Now we have a clearer indication courtesy of Games Industry.biz’s Chris Dring, who reports that across physical and digital, Astro Bot’s first week sales in the UK are actually 21 per cent ...