Activist works to protect Lake Baikal
The planned construction of a uranium enrichment center only 50 miles from Lake Baikal in Siberia poses an environmental threat to the world's oldest and deepest lake, according to Marina Rikhvanova, an internationally known environmental activist who co-founded the nonprofit Baikal Environmental Wave. Rikhvanova described her work to protect the lake, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in her Friday lecture at the Haldeman Center.