India’s Ganges River is one of the most revered in the world; it is also one of the most polluted. Stretching some 1,500 miles from its origins in the Himalayas to its mouth in the Bay of Bengal ...

On the far side of India from Gaumukh and with the air 35C warmer, boat skipper Tapan Das is as much in awe of the Ganges at its mouth as Amod Panwar was at its source. Two years ago, Panwar’s ...

The next day, we walked the four kilometres to Gaumukh Glacier. The ice that forms the mouth of the Ganges looked more like teeth. A rock slide had changed the course of the river and the usual ...

Toward the end of my stay in India, I traveled to Sagar Island, at the western end of the 200-mile-wide Ganges River Delta. Sagar sits on the Bay of Bengal at the mouth of a distributary of the ...

The Ganges River runs from the Himalaya through ... The largest amounts were found closer to the river mouth at Bhola in Bangladesh, where concentrations were as much as four times that found ...

India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge in places on its journey through burgeoning cities ...

The dark ribbon curls down a dirt embankment and flows into the Ganges River. "That's toxic runoff," says Rakesh Jaiswal, a 48-year-old environmental activist, as he leads me along the refuse ...

I arrived in Varanasi at dawn and made my way to the Ganges as the sun began to cast ... while making sure not to get water anywhere near my mouth. Back on the ghats, drying in the sun, my newly ...

Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including ... Surveys along the length of the river, from the mouth in Bangladesh to the Himalayas in India, show levels of ...

The previously undocumented quake rerouted the main channel of the Ganges River in what is now densely populated Bangladesh, which remains vulnerable to big quakes. A major earthquake 2,500 years ...