The Bering Land Bridge's maar lakes, in the northern tip of the Seward Peninsula, are the largest maars on Earth. (Image credit: ESA) Along Alaska's southern boundary is a 1,200-mile-long (2,000 ...

The megalake holds the Guinness World Record for the largest known lake on Earth. It extended over an immense area of 2.8 million square kilometers, ...

This Russian lake is Earth’s largest lake in volume; it contains around 20% of the unfrozen freshwater in our planet. Located in distant Siberia, its surface is of 30,500 km 2. 7.

During the most severe event, the mega-lake lost over two-thirds of its area and one-third of its volume, with water levels plunging by as much as 250 meters. This devastated the native species and ...

The Paratethys—or Lake Paratethys, if you will—and contained 10 times more water than all of Earth’s modern lakes. In other words, it’s long overdue for its place in the Guinness Book.

Mars once hosted a lake larger than any on Earth. The broken-down and dried-up remnants of this ancient lakebed are shown here in amazing detail by ESA's Mars Express.

It was about how to keep the nation’s largest lake from disappearing. Lake Oroumieh, one of the biggest saltwater lakes on Earth, has shrunk more than 80 percent to nearly 400 square […] ...

Wondering which are the largest lakes in the world? Needless to say, water is essential to our existence on Earth. Sometimes referred to as “the big blue marble”, our planet is widely known ...