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

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

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

"We can't allow you to go into the water ... in the river with our people." Rituals in the days-long festival culminate at dawn on Friday. "I don't bother about the pollution", said Pooja ...

A study shedding new light on how arsenic can be made less dangerous to humans has the potential to dramatically improve water and food safety, especially in the Global South.

In a recent interview, Dr Md Sarwar Hossain, Associate Professor at the University of Glasgow and lead of first-time research on "safe operating space" (SOS) for Bangladeshi rivers, shared his ...

A video showing Chhath devotees immersing themselves in the Yamuna for their ritual bath and washing their hair with the ...

In the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta ... Similarly, the Mekong Delta and the Red River Delta, in Vietnam, face ongoing challenges with arsenic pollution, affecting drinking water supplies and ...

In the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna ... the Mekong Delta and the Red River Delta, in Vietnam, face ongoing challenges with arsenic pollution, affecting drinking water supplies and agricultural ...