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'Lake Baikal is contains more water than the five US great lakes combined'
Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009
new antibiotics
Lake Baikal and remote Siberian caves 'hold key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.
Scientists to extract ancient bacteria from Batagai depression in bid to create new antibiotic range
Expedition to the world’s biggest permafrost ‘crater’ in Yakutia seeks secret of taming antimicrobial resistance.
How great is the threat of an explosion of smallpox from the thawing permafrost in Siberia?
Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.
Siberia’s stark warning to Scotland for Cop26: climate change in the planet’s last great wilderness
Eight phenomena highlight how our world is altering right here, right now, an ecological ticking time bomb.
Life is hard enough without having to build separate climbing frames.
I am now, for the first time in my life, living in a sanctioned country.
Royal favourite hit by sex slurs after epic Siberian trip
An extraordinary adventure, blessed by the Queen of England and the Tsarina of Russia.
Outcry over 'terrible and cruel' health care for children in Khabarovsk
'Shocking' pictures revealed online by campaign exposing the alleged failings.
Revealed: the last days of tragic Russian model Vlada Dzyuba, 14, who died far from home in China
Feeling ill during foreign assignment, she was sent alone on 300 km train journey less than 48 hours before she died of serious blood infection.
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Sent to Siberia
Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.
Born in Siberia
Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.
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