Climate change threatens Lake Baikal's unique biota

harminka — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:13:29 -0500

Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to an analysis by a joint US-Russian team in the May issue of BioScience.

Global warming affects world's largest freshwater lake

harminka — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:16:04 -0500

Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming.