Polluted with waste, the Ganges River is being cleaned by a billion-dollar programme – but are the efforts to clean it ...

The National Green Tribunal, reviewing a report on the Ganges River's pollution, found even the river's origin contaminated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sweeping aside thick toxic scum, thousands of Hindu devotees ignored court warnings Thursday against bathing in the sacred ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patna is set to complete two more sewage treatment plants (STPs) as part of a larger initiative to improve the city's sewage ...

The river in Haridwar itself caught fire in 1984 when someone put a lit match on the water. "Indians are killing the Ganges with pollution and the polluted Ganges, in turn, is killing Indians ...

One of India’s most sacred rivers, the Yamuna in New Delhi, is covered with white toxic foam, with vast sections frothing as ...