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A group of Chinese scientists have returned from an investigation at Russias Lake Baikal, which is the world's deepest and largest freshwater lake. The scientists were taking part in the first joint investigation by Russia and China into the ecological environment of the lake. The...

"The Lady of the Lake" is such a romantic name that mud boots would spoil the Arthurian image, but it can't be helped. In search of such mystery and beauty, I travelled to Lake Drummond in Suffolk, 30 minutes west of my house, and also to Mountain Lake near Blacksburg, some five hours farther...

China's lowest inland point is 154.31 meters below the sea level, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region jointly announced here on Sunday. The figure means the lowest point at Aiding Lake in the northwestern [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...

Kurile Lake is located in the southernmost part of Kamchatka, at the southern end of the subduction-related Eastern volcanic front. Five Late Pleistocene-Holocene volcanoes (from north to south: Zheltovsky; Iliinsky, Dikii Greben'; Koshelev, and Kambalny) located only 12-18 km one from ano...

Researchers at the Boston University Centre for Remote Sensing used recently acquired topographic data from satellites to reveal a now dry, ancient mega-lake in the Darfur province of northwestern Sudan. Drs. Eman Ghoneim and Farouk El-Baz made the finding while investigating Landsat imag...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia. According to a report in RIA Novosti, the team consisted of Kyrgyz historians, led by Vladimir Ploskikh, vice president of the Kyrgyz Academy of S...

Lake Faguibine is a lake in Mali, lying west of Timbuktu. It was a major body of water and a centre for early civilisation in the area. Source

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, sh...

Lake Atitlán, located in the Department of Sololá, has one of the most beautiful landscapes found anywhere in Guatemala. Its beauty has been compared with Switzerland's lakes. Along the margins of the lake, there are three imposing volcanos: Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro. The lake is located at 1...

Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and second deepest lake in the world, is now at its warmest in 1,500 years, threatening the fishing industry on which millions of lives depend, scientists said today. The evidence comes from cores drilled into sedimentary layers in the lake bottom that point to cl...

Authorities in Pakistan are warning of a catastrophe in the north-east of the country as a lake, created by a landslide, threatens to burst. The huge lake is growing in the foothills in the Himalayas, submerging villages and endangering thousands of people. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wo...

Scientists To Probe Lake Rotomahana Scientists from the New Zealand and the United States are planning to use two torpedo-like unmanned underwater vehicles to map the bottom of Lake Rotomahana, near Rotorua, and look for hydrothermal activity on the lake bed. [url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/sto...

Searching for Alien Life, on Earth In her work at Mono Lake, Wolfe-Simon is particularly interested in micro-organisms that utilise arsenic in novel ways. To you and me, arsenic is a poison. Here's why: our bodies, like all other known life forms on Earth, depend on phosphorus; it's an essential com...

Out west, 28 kilometres from Narrabri at the edge of the Pilliga forest, is Yarrie Lake . This natural phenomenon, a perfectly circular 'dish shaped' body of water three kilometres in diameter, is believed to have been formed by a meteorite falling to earth many thousands of years ago. Yarrie Lake is...

Quake Lake (officially Earthquake Lake) is a lake in southwestern Montana, United States. It was created after a massive earthquake struck on August 17, 1959, which killed 27 people. Read more

On August 21, 1986, possibly triggered by a landslide, Lake Nyos suddenly emitted a large cloud of CO2, which suffocated 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby towns and villages. Read more

Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts. The mission will use hot water to melt its way through ice 3km thick to reach Lake Ellsworth, which ha...

Evidence of Ancient Lake in California's Eel River Emerges A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California's Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake - which has since disappeared - and leaving a living legacy found today in the genes of the region's steelh...

Lake Peigneur is located in the U.S. State of Louisiana 1.9 km north of Delcambre and 14.6 km west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. The lake was a 3 m deep freshwater lake popular with sportsmen until an unusual man-made disaster on November 20, 1980, changed the structure of t...

China's largest desert lake may vanish in 10 years China's largest desert lake is shrinking as a result of climate change and human activities and it could vanish in just a decade, officials estimate. Hongjiannao lake, sandwiched between the Maowusu desert in Shaanxi province and the Erdos platea...

The Lakes of Covadonga (el. 1134 m.) are of two glacial lakes located on the region of Asturias, Spain. These lakes, usually also called Lakes of Enol, are Lake Enol and Lake Ercina located in the Picos de Europa range and they are the original center of the Picos de Europa National Park, created in 1918...

Omar asks scientists to explore potential of Dal weeds Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asked scientists to explore the possibility of utilising the large quantity of weeds extracted from Dal Lake for generating energy. Hundreds of tonnes of weed are extracted from the Dal Lake e...

Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is fed by the Southern Ewaso Ng'iro River and also by mineral-rich hot springs. It is quite shallow, less than three meters deep, and varies in width depending on...

Life abounds in Antarctic lake sealed under ice It is permanently covered by a massive cap of ice up to 27 metres thick, is six times saltier than normal sea water, and at -13 °C is one of the coldest aquatic environments on Earth - yet Lake Vida in Antarctica teems with life. [url=http://www.nature.co...

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Lake Baikal Lake Baikal (Preview)	General news	5	3291	Feb 25 18:02 2010 by Blobrana
A group of Chinese scientists have returned from an investigation at Russias Lake Baikal, which is the world's deepest and largest freshwater lake. The scientists were taking part in the first joint investigation by Russia and China into the ecological environment of the lake. The...
Lake Two natural lakes in Virginia (Preview)	General news	0	3088	May 3 18:07 2009 by Blobrana
"The Lady of the Lake" is such a romantic name that mud boots would spoil the Arthurian image, but it can't be helped. In search of such mystery and beauty, I travelled to Lake Drummond in Suffolk, 30 minutes west of my house, and also to Mountain Lake near Blacksburg, some five hours farther...
Lake Aiding Lake (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2719	Sep 28 16:56 2008 by Blobrana
China's lowest inland point is 154.31 meters below the sea level, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region jointly announced here on Sunday. The figure means the lowest point at Aiding Lake in the northwestern [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
Lake Supervolcano Kurile Lake caldera (Preview)	Off Topic	0	3409	Mar 30 13:18 2007 by Blobrana
Kurile Lake is located in the southernmost part of Kamchatka, at the southern end of the subduction-related Eastern volcanic front. Five Late Pleistocene-Holocene volcanoes (from north to south: Zheltovsky; Iliinsky, Dikii Greben'; Koshelev, and Kambalny) located only 12-18 km one from ano...
Lake Hydrosphere Ancient mega-lake (Preview)	Off Topic	7	8984	Apr 20 13:36 2012 by Blobrana
Researchers at the Boston University Centre for Remote Sensing used recently acquired topographic data from satellites to reveal a now dry, ancient mega-lake in the Darfur province of northwestern Sudan. Drs. Eman Ghoneim and Farouk El-Baz made the finding while investigating Landsat imag...
Lake Lake Issyk-Kul (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2988	Dec 29 12:09 2007 by Blobrana
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia. According to a report in RIA Novosti, the team consisted of Kyrgyz historians, led by Vladimir Ploskikh, vice president of the Kyrgyz Academy of S...
Lake Lake Faguibine (Preview)	Off Topic	1	2977	Dec 11 22:24 2009 by Blobrana
Lake Faguibine is a lake in Mali, lying west of Timbuktu. It was a major body of water and a centre for early civilisation in the area. Source
Lake Dinosaur Lake Dixie (Preview)	General news	0	2908	Oct 30 15:35 2008 by Blobrana
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, sh...
Lake Lake Atitlán (Preview)	Off Topic	1	2962	Jan 22 14:41 2010 by Blobrana
Lake Atitlán, located in the Department of Sololá, has one of the most beautiful landscapes found anywhere in Guatemala. Its beauty has been compared with Switzerland's lakes. Along the margins of the lake, there are three imposing volcanos: Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro. The lake is located at 1...
Lake Lake Tanganyika (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2801	May 16 19:02 2010 by Blobrana
Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and second deepest lake in the world, is now at its warmest in 1,500 years, threatening the fishing industry on which millions of lives depend, scientists said today. The evidence comes from cores drilled into sedimentary layers in the lake bottom that point to cl...
Lake Hunza Gojal Landslide Lake (Preview)	Off Topic	2	3471	Jun 1 11:36 2010 by Blobrana
Authorities in Pakistan are warning of a catastrophe in the north-east of the country as a lake, created by a landslide, threatens to burst. The huge lake is growing in the foothills in the Himalayas, submerging villages and endangering thousands of people. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wo...
Lake Lake Rotomahana (Preview)	Volcano	0	2894	Nov 15 08:33 2010 by Blobrana
Scientists To Probe Lake Rotomahana Scientists from the New Zealand and the United States are planning to use two torpedo-like unmanned underwater vehicles to map the bottom of Lake Rotomahana, near Rotorua, and look for hydrothermal activity on the lake bed. [url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/sto...
Lake Mono Lake (Preview)	General news	6	10662	Jul 10 00:16 2012 by Blobrana
Searching for Alien Life, on Earth In her work at Mono Lake, Wolfe-Simon is particularly interested in micro-organisms that utilise arsenic in novel ways. To you and me, arsenic is a poison. Here's why: our bodies, like all other known life forms on Earth, depend on phosphorus; it's an essential com...
Lake Yarrie Lake (Preview)	Meteorite News	0	2512	Dec 10 16:29 2010 by Blobrana
Out west, 28 kilometres from Narrabri at the edge of the Pilliga forest, is Yarrie Lake . This natural phenomenon, a perfectly circular 'dish shaped' body of water three kilometres in diameter, is believed to have been formed by a meteorite falling to earth many thousands of years ago. Yarrie Lake is...
Lake Quake Lake (Preview)	General news	1	5303	Aug 17 05:52 2012 by Blobrana
Quake Lake (officially Earthquake Lake) is a lake in southwestern Montana, United States. It was created after a massive earthquake struck on August 17, 1959, which killed 27 people. Read more
Lake Lake Nyos (Preview)	Volcano	1	2954	Aug 21 05:49 2012 by Blobrana
On August 21, 1986, possibly triggered by a landslide, Lake Nyos suddenly emitted a large cloud of CO2, which suffocated 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby towns and villages. Read more
Antarctic Lake Lake Ellsworth ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	General news	15	7249	Dec 28 08:26 2012 by Blobrana
Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts. The mission will use hot water to melt its way through ice 3km thick to reach Lake Ellsworth, which ha...
River Lake Eel River (Preview)	General news	1	2764	Nov 14 21:27 2011 by Blobrana
Evidence of Ancient Lake in California's Eel River Emerges A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California's Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake - which has since disappeared - and leaving a living legacy found today in the genes of the region's steelh...
Lake Lake Peigneur (Preview)	General news	1	3002	Nov 20 07:59 2012 by Blobrana
Lake Peigneur is located in the U.S. State of Louisiana 1.9 km north of Delcambre and 14.6 km west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. The lake was a 3 m deep freshwater lake popular with sportsmen until an unusual man-made disaster on November 20, 1980, changed the structure of t...
Lake Hongjiannao lake (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2369	Dec 23 15:39 2011 by Blobrana
China's largest desert lake may vanish in 10 years China's largest desert lake is shrinking as a result of climate change and human activities and it could vanish in just a decade, officials estimate. Hongjiannao lake, sandwiched between the Maowusu desert in Shaanxi province and the Erdos platea...
Lake Lakes of Covadonga (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2264	Feb 3 23:27 2012 by Blobrana
The Lakes of Covadonga (el. 1134 m.) are of two glacial lakes located on the region of Asturias, Spain. These lakes, usually also called Lakes of Enol, are Lake Enol and Lake Ercina located in the Picos de Europa range and they are the original center of the Picos de Europa National Park, created in 1918...
Lake Dal Lake (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2592	Jul 10 15:38 2012 by Blobrana
Omar asks scientists to explore potential of Dal weeds Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asked scientists to explore the possibility of utilising the large quantity of weeds extracted from Dal Lake for generating energy. Hundreds of tonnes of weed are extracted from the Dal Lake e...
Lake Lake Natron (Preview)	General news	1	2535	Nov 13 09:51 2012 by Blobrana
Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of the East African Rift. The lake is fed by the Southern Ewaso Ng'iro River and also by mineral-rich hot springs. It is quite shallow, less than three meters deep, and varies in width depending on...
Lake Lake Vida (Preview)	General news	1	2572	Nov 27 19:39 2012 by Blobrana
Life abounds in Antarctic lake sealed under ice It is permanently covered by a massive cap of ice up to 27 metres thick, is six times saltier than normal sea water, and at -13 °C is one of the coldest aquatic environments on Earth - yet Lake Vida in Antarctica teems with life. [url=http://www.nature.co...