Articles and publications for the rivers and lakes subsection and the Nature section.
Lake Baikal in Numbers Lake Baikal: Not a Brochure, but a Personal Experience So much has been said about Lake Baikal that any new text risks turning into yet another promotional brochure with a set of «the deepest, the oldest, the clearest.» These figures are true, but they no longer work — the reader has…
What connects a folk tale about three rivers, an ancient shark’s tooth, and modern water-management projects? They are different ways of understanding the Volga: as a natural system, a cultural symbol, and a place where today’s decisions shape tomorrow’s environment. The Volga seems familiar even to people who have never visited its banks. Its name…