Russian minister wants to send Brits on vacation to 'magical' Siberia to make them 'feel 10 years younger'.
Furnaces for 'advanced' metal production found under dirt track used by summer tourists.
Scientists say numbers in Lake Baikal reaching critical levels and say new commercial businesses could safeguard their future.
Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.
Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.
Hopes for significant rise of Chinese visitors and special fares between April and October to encourage young Russians to travel to Baikal.
Vital for making its waters so 'pure', one theory is that rising underwater methane leaks are killing off the sponge, but is there a silver lining?
Some 800 workers face 'abyss' of poverty after being made redundant this week from the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill.
Economic crisis to blame for delay in plan to breathe new environmentally-friendly life into former Lake Baikal polluter.
Forest infernos will be extinguished by the weekend, pledges government, as wildfires become political issue in Moscow.