Russia stages 'successful' second launch of new rocket

Russia on Monday conducted a second launch of its new heavy-class Angara rocket—the first developed after the fall of the Soviet Union—nearly six years after its maiden voyage.

Polluting Siberian paper mill shuts down

The polluting paper mill on the shores of Russia's Lake Baikal, the world's deepest freshwater lake, has shut and will be firing almost 800 workers this week, employees and management said on Monday.

Scientists sequence the genome of the Baikal seal

As part of an international team, St Petersburg University biologists have for the first time described the genome of the Baikal seal or nerpa, the only mammal inhabiting Lake Baikal. The research is published in the journal ...

Analyzing Lake Geneva from the air: A second wind for elemo

One year after the MIR submersibles dove into the depths of Lake Geneva, the elemo program is delivering its first scientific results. And with the support of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, the operation will be extended with a ...

A scientific adventure from Lake Geneva to Lake Baikal

Ultra-light aircraft are being deployed in both Switzerland and Russia as part of the Léman-Baïkal project. Lake Geneva, the largest lake in the Alps, and Lake Baikal, the world's largest lake, will be studied using new ...

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