Call to locals and tourists to aid experts counter the green gunge 'polluting' world's deepest lake.

Two weeks after collecting his passport from Vladimir Putin, the Hollywood actor discloses intriguing DNA in his family tree.

Yulia and Dugarma were raised by the wrong mothers, and now face the shocking truth, vowing to see the ‘joy and happiness’.

Scientist and senator calls for thousands of Baikal's endemic seals to be hunted.

Couple thank Thai and Russian doctors who save their premature miracle baby.

Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.

'Scary' scenes as fumes from burning forests cover Lake Baikal, with people - and bears - fleeing 'Apocalypse'.

One early visitor: a fireball streaking across the sky and splashing into Lake Baikal.

This week, a second DNA test found she too was swapped as a newborn baby - 22 years earlier - in exactly the same maternity hospital.

Around 400 delegates are expected including representatives of 41 ethnic minorities representing around a quarter of a million people.