Every year the northern half of Asia is transformed by snow and ice. Here an array of remarkable creatures defy some of the ...

New research into under-ice conditions is challenging what limnologists thought they understood about lakes’ winter behavior.

In Russia's Lake Baikal, a seal pup must take evasive action when its ice den starts to melt. Hokkaido's thermal springs are ...

to the Lake Baikal seal mothers that have learned to create underwater air chambers to keep their pups from drowning. Sea snakes and fish that have struck up a symbiotic relationship, and the Gobi ...

Across Europe, the cultural and relaxation centers are booming. Spain is the greatest beneficiary of the boom with a 25% ...

We have no idea how it ended up there. And the golomyanka, which is this gooey little fish that lives deep in Lake Baikal. The rumor has it that when you pull it out of the water and lift it to ...

The borders between countries, we are sometimes led to believe, are not what they used to be. Here in this first quarter of ...

Love BBC Earth? Then you'll want to watch the new "Asia" TV series narrated by David Attenborough on BBC Player!

I also calmed down my completism and broke the journey at Irkutsk, where I had a house-stay and walked on frozen Lake Baikal ... vodka and eating smoked fish. The Chinese train from Irkutsk ...

The 98 year-old ‘has met most of the animals, his great voice pronounces them all correctly straight off the bat’, says ...