They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa, Japan For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have ...

La Franchi has tapped Jason Riffe, who previously raised a pair of $200 million debt funds at United Way devoted to affordable housing investment, to serve as managing director of SDSID. Riffe told CO ...

Lake Baikal measures 12,239 square miles (31,700 square kilometers), making it Earth's seventh-largest lake.It is not only the world's oldest lake but also the deepest one, at about 1 mile (1.6 ...