Footage caught from the banks of a river that many consider to be holy shows people bathing, despite toxic foam taking over ...

Filled with mud, it frequently floods ... Cascading hazards of a major Bengal basin earthquake and abrupt avulsion of the Ganges River, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038 ...

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

Chemical analysis of the sand and mud showed several eruptions happened ... which hit Turkey and Syria in 2023. The vast ...

The Uttar Pradesh government is yet to make a statement on the NGT's latest ban on waste dumping by the Ganges. The river is sacred to Hindus who worship it as "Mother Ganges", but it has also ...

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 ...

The Ganges river is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. A new study using geo-tagged bottles was able to show plastic can cross the Ganges, travel thousands of kilometres, and end up in ...

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...