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Skaters glided gracefully across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, taking in the breathtaking winter scenery while skating across huge sheets of ice dozens of feet thick. The frozen Siberian lake offers a perfectly clear view of the lake bottom as the frozen ice is as clear as glass in many places. Ice skating from one end to the other takes about 2 weeks! How would you like to skate on this lake of glass?
The howling of dogs, the bite of frosty winter, and the butterflies floating in your stomach moments before the race begins. Welcome to BaikalRace2017, the annual 96-mile-long endurance dog sled race which takes place on the frozen surface of the deepest freshwater lake in the world. Teams of racers and their dogs kicked off the first leg of the race on Saturday and rode long and hard throughout the weekend to vie for the crown. The annual Baikal dog-sledding endurance competition has drawn scores of adventurous tourists to frosty but beautiful Siberia. This year's sled race is set to run over several days, with the dogs sledding through Lake Baikal, the Baikal National Park and the Baikal Nature Biosphere Reserve. The annual BaikalRace is not the longest official dog sledding race in Russia, not by a longshot. That title goes to the Beringia race, an annual long distance dog sledding endurance race around the Kamchatka Peninsula running for about 590 miles in total, or about 6 times as long as Baikal Race. Longer still is the world famous Iditarod Race in Alaska, which runs for about 1,000 miles on a trail from Anchorage to Nome, making it the longest dog sled race in the world.
Aerial images show dry sections of China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang, which connects to the Yangtze River. China has been hit by extreme weather this summer, including record temperatures, flash floods and droughts -- phenomena that scientists have warned are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. IMAGES
China switched on the world's largest floating solar farm, located a small distance from the city of Huainan in the eastern Anhui province, in May. Local authorities decided to implement the project after a coal mining operation flooded, leading to questions about how best to use the site. The floating solar farm itself was built by Chinese manufacturer Sungrow Power Supply, at its full capacity of 40 megawatts, the plant can provide electricity for more than 15,000 homes.
Listvianka (Russia), Apr 1 (EFE) .- (Camera: Ignacio Ortega) The closure of the borders and the relaxation of sanitary measures have made Lake Baikal a place of pilgrimage among Russians during the last months of the pandemic. In the ice of the Siberian lake, there is no space for masks or cans of hand sanitizer.FOOTAGE OF LAKE BAIKAL.
Cabimas, 12 Dec (EFE), (Camera: Miguel Gutierrez and Henrry Chirinos).- In Lake Maracaibo, the largest lake in Venezuela, the water is not always fresh and life in general is almost never easy. In this ecosystem, affected by incessant oil spills, numerous fishermen and fishers fight to find fish free of the crude oil. SOUNDBITE BY AMADO HUERES, FISHERMAN Translation: 02:10 - 02:19"We used to fish in a relaxed way, there wasn't oil, lots of fish, but now there is nothing, no fish, this is awful"
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