News Headline
World's deepest lake is in peril: Natural wonder that holds one-fifth of earth's unfrozen fresh water is mysteriously dying
Source
Daily Mail (UK)
Publication Date
2017-10-19
Lake Baikal, a major international tourist attraction, is undergoing a grave crisis, experts says. The lake, in Russia's Siberia, is a natural wonder of 'exceptional value to evolutionary science' meriting a listing as a World Heritage Site by Unesco. It holds one-fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water and its high biodiversity includes over 3,600 plant and animal species, most of which are endemic to the lake.