Accessed January 24, 2011, this natural-color image shows ice coating Lake Baikal.
Published Jan 24, 2011
Visitors to Russia’s Lake Baikal have been met with smoke and ash from wildfires raging in the area.
Published Aug 14, 2015
Wildfires continue to speckle the landscape in southern Russia amid the Northern Hemisphere’s 2015 fire season.
Published Jul 27, 2015
A blanket of white spread across the Sayan Mountains.
Published Nov 6, 2014
Straddling Austria and Hungary, the lake is also known as the “Sea of the Viennese.”
Published Apr 10, 2017
Strong winds fanned the flames of dozens of forest fires in southern Russia around Lake Baikal in the third week of May 2008. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry warned residents that winds were expected to pick up in the middle of the week, spreading fires dangerously close to cities, including Irkutsk and Bratsk, and threatening the regions’s many dachas.
Published May 17, 2008
