The dark ribbon curls down a dirt embankment and flows into the Ganges River. "That's toxic runoff," says Rakesh Jaiswal, a 48-year-old environmental activist, as he leads me along the refuse ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of the Ganges River from above, as this drone footage captures the sacred waters flowing through India. The Ganges holds profound religious significance for ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

Ridding the Ganges of thousands of tons of plastic trash is a complex puzzle. India is starting to put the pieces together. Two rivers, the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda, converge in the western ...

Adviser Farida Akhter said around four crore people of the country are being affected badly due to the Farakka Barrage.

Followers have come to take a holy dip in the Triveni Sangam, the confluence of three holy rivers – the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati – to purify their sins and take another step ...

India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests. Such changes have been observed in other rivers in recent ...

The Ganges dolphin is an indicator species, whose status provides information on the overall condition of the ecosystem and of other species in that ecosystem. In a first for India, a Ganges River ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...