More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India's holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today, little of the ancient construction remains, ...

Half a year ago, one man set off on a 5,778-mile journey to sound the alarm about India's ailing rivers. So organizations have taken action. Jaggi Vasudev, known as Sadhguru, is a popular yogi who ...

Haimark’s 56-passenger Ganges Voyager launched earlier this year. Photo Credit: Michelle Baran There are plenty of rivers in the world, but finding new inland waterways that are suitable for river ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over the Ganges Delta – the world’s largest river delta. Covering an area of around 100 000 sq km, the Ganges Delta lies in both Bangladesh and the State of ...

Jean Renoir's The River is a sort of animated geographic, in color, of life on the Ganges River in West Bengal. It is a distinctive story of adolescent love, with a philosophy that life flows on just ...

Ridding the Ganges of thousands of tons of plastic trash is a complex puzzle. India is starting to put the pieces together. Two rivers, the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda, converge in the western ...

Small cradles of chrysanthemums, illuminated by a single candle, flicker in the moonlight, bobbing along the fast-flowing Ganges River. They are offerings. For hundreds of millions of Hindus around ...