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 ...

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 ...

An 86-year-old Indian activist died Thursday during a hunger strike to protest pollution in the Ganges River, Reuters reports. G.D. Agarwal was more than 15 weeks into a fast that he began on June 22.

As per the latest recorded data on 4 February, faecal coliform levels in the Ganges surged after a major bathing event at the Maha Kumbh Mela, reaching 11,000 units per 100 millilitres near ...

Bloomberg’s @tictoc on Monday tweeted: “India's Prime Minister Modi promised to clean up the Ganges river in his 2014 election run. Now, 4,400 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of waste are ...

By the BBC's Ayanjit Sen in Delhi A leading non-governmental organisation in India is planning to work with a London-based organisation in an effort to clean up the River Ganges. The Ganges flows for ...

ABOUT 5 million Hindus have plunged into the chilly waters of the Ganges, despite concerns that Hinduism's sacred river had become too polluted to bathe in safely. Clutching tridents, chanting ...

Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles and dolphins, new research shows. The study says entanglement in fishing gear could harm species ...

image: Emily Duncan releases a bottle. view more Credit: Sara Hylton/NGS Electronic tags released in the Ganges river show plastic pollution can travel thousands of kilometres in just a few months.

In Allahabad, the Ganges joins the Yamuna and the mythical, invisible Saraswati river to form the Sangam, where tens of millions gather every few years for the Kumbh Mela festival.

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 ...