Russia: Lake Baikal’s water drops to historically low level

Experts issued warnings, Thursday, from Irkutsk announcing that water levels in the worlds largest body of unfrozen freshwater, Lake Baikal, have hit historically low levels. Academics at Irkutsk State University just 60 km (37.2 miles) from Lake Baikal said the damage to wildlife could be profound. Dean of the soil biology faculty at Irkutsk State University, Arkadi Matveev said “the small volume of rainfall in the Baikal basin over the summer period and the early snow melting“ could lead to a “critical