Lake Baikal holds several global records itself. Somewhere between 20 and 25 million years old, it is the oldest existing freshwater lake on Earth.

Lakes also provide us with avenues of transportation, recreational opportunities, and centres of biodiversity and natural ecosystems. Certain land use practices and other human activities have ...

This stunning country has more lakes than any other place in the world, and some of them need to be seen to be believed.

Lake Kariba has the distinction of being the world’s largest man-made lake. It’s located on the Zimbabwe and Zambia border. Indeed, few of the largest man-made lakes in the United States come close to ...

How can it be that a large lake went undiscovered for so long? Simple, it is underground in a cave system. The cave system is ...

Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are among the most serious natural hazards in high mountain regions in the last several decades. The recent global warming has caused dramatic glacial lake changes ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface.

With Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre expecting its most significant fill in decades, hundreds of thousands of migratory birds are flocking to the inland oasis, but how they know the rare event is happening ...

The Midwest's largest ICE detention center has opened at GEO North Lake in Baldwin, Michigan, and it could soon house people detained in Chicago.

A new map uncovers the true impact of agriculture on Earth's systems, and why it's the most overlooked opportunity to improve public and planetary health.

Earth's newest telescope could discover Planet 9—and solve other huge mysteries No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory.

A Utah lawmaker has proposed a new idea to mitigate Great Salt Lake dust: build berms to temporarily trap water and form a crust over the exposed lakebed. Once the surface has hardened, that water ...