The Selenga drains much of northern Mongolia into Lake Baikal. kmusser, CC BY-SA The Shuren dam isn’t the only threat to the delta, but it may be the most important.

Lake Baikal, in southern Siberia, ... The Selenga River is the largest source of water coming into Lake Baikal. Flowing north from Mongolia, it contributes nearly 50 percent of the lake's water.

Lake Baikal is a UNESCO World Heritage site, ... As long as the rest of the world sees it all as just a Mongolia-Russia squabble, Baikal is in danger," he says. "Unfortunately, ...

Mongolia is planning to build as many as eight hydroelectric dams on the Selenga River and its tributaries, the source of 50 percent of Lake Baikal’s surface water.

IRKUTSK, Russia -- Environmentalists in Russia's Far East have been celebrating a small victory in a long war to protect one of the world's great natural treasures, Lake Baikal. On September 27 ...

The little sister of Russia’s better-known Lake Baikal, Mongolia’s extraordinary Lake Khovsgol has all of the beauty and none of the crowds (at least for now). At depths close to 900 ft., this ...

Through the joint Russian-Mongolian working group, the two States Parties have agreed to collaborate on the assessment of the impacts of all planned energy and dam projects in Mongolia and their ...