Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity ...

Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of ...

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 ...

Springer Verlag, Berlin, 45–61 Bruijnzeel, L. A. with Bremmer, C. N., 1989 Highland-lowland interactions in the Ganges Brahmaputra river basin: a review of published literature. ICIMOD Occasional ...

India's revered Ganges and Yamuna rivers cannot be viewed as living entities, the Supreme Court has ruled. It overruled an order made in March by the High Court in Uttarakhand state, which said ...

The lowland streaked tenrec is vermivorous ... which bounces off ocean life and enables it to “visualize” where its next meal is. The Ganges River dolphin travels alone or in small groups. It gives ...

In effect, several major rivers such as the Mekong, Salween, Yellow, Yangtze, Yarlung Tsampo (Brahmaputra in India), Indus, ...

The sacred city of Varanasi, on the River Ganges. Hindus visit to bathe in the water to wash their sins away One of the most important pilgrimages in Hinduism is Kumbh Mela. This is the largest ...

Nestled on the banks of the Ganges River amidst beautiful and refreshing ... offers an oasis with temperatures averaging 15 ...

FRBC Research Chair of Watershed Management, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, B.C., V1V 1V7, Canada In response to the continuing degradation and disappearance of the world's tropical forests ...