The Ganges River, revered as the goddess Ganga, is central to Hindu culture for its purification powers. It supports millions ...

Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...

Both towns are places of pilgrimage located in the upper reaches of the Ganges where the river leaves the Himalayas and where the pollution begins. One of GIZ’s primary tasks is to improve the ...

Even though millions have been spent to preserve the sacred River Ganges, the pollution level in the river has reached an alarming level. The oxygen level in the river water has dripped to ...

As India struggles to clean up the Ganges river, researchers hope that their ‘message in a bottle’ approach will help shed light on the impact of plastic pollution on the 2,700 kilometre long ...

Ganges, Zhujiang, Haihe, Niger, and the Nile supposedly bring 90% of anthropogenic pollution to the oceans. Therefore, The Ocean Cleanup has focused a significant part of its efforts on catching ...

"Indians are killing the Ganges with pollution and the polluted Ganges, in turn, is killing Indians," says Victor Mallet, author of River of Life, River of Death, a new book on the river.

There are laws to stop pollution but critics say they are inadequate and poorly enforced. 'Mother' Ganges becomes a legal person So the landmark judgement in March to give the rivers the same ...

New Delhi, Plastic pollution from discarded fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife such as the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges ...

that on the one hand we treat mother Ganges as a deity or as a god or goddess like that. On the other hand we pollute it. It’s a paradox. The source of pollution of Ganga in Patna is mainly the ...