The new Ganges research also echoes recent studies tracing PPCPs on European glaciers, where researchers traced chemical pollutants to the use of perfumes in personal care products like soap.

The clip on X features two couples lathering up and rinsing off in the water, an act many online pointed out was harmful to ...

Senior Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) leader Soumya Aich Roy on Tuesday accused both Union and state governments of showing “recurrent apathy” toward large-scale riverbank erosion in Malda and ...

India and Bangladesh share 54 transboundary rivers, yet have sharing agreements for only one - the Ganges - which will expire in December next year.

And the Ganges, or the Ganga Mata (Mother Ganges) as it’s called by India’s devout, is in bad shape. Untreated sewage flows directly into the river where people cook, bathe, and perform burial ...

Rishikesh—India’s yoga capital—isn’t just a spiritual sanctuary. Nestled in the Himalayan foothills and embraced by the ...

After heavy rains in Ghazipur, UP, the Ganges has flooded, which has badly affected normal life. At the same time, people have to go to the fields using stairs. Till now, during the floods of Ganga, ...

The River Ganges is filled with antibiotic resistant bacteria even in stretches which are high in the mountains away from India's cities, scientists have found. The 1,560-mile (2,510km) long river ...

Mr Chowdhury, a conservationist, has to inform the forest officials each time he hears from fishermen or friends about a Ganges river dolphin being stranded or found dead in his district. This is ...

Life on the Ganges: The mystics, street children and pilgrims who spend their lives on the banks of India's most sacred river The ghats are the local name given to the steps that lead down to the ...

Leaning on the Ganges Ghat Look Is there anything dirtier than man? Yoon Bong-Taek, a poet from Korea, the Land of Morning Calm, shares his poem Poet Mr. Yoon Bong-Taek was born in Gangjeong Village, ...