Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...

Even though millions have been spent to preserve the sacred River Ganges, the pollution level in the river has reached an alarming level. The oxygen level in the river water has dripped to ...

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

Success in the effective implementation of environmental laws would, in this end, be achieved through the balance of ...

Forty percent of India gets its water from the Ganges ... a sacred pilgrimage to the river. Tests showed that biochemical oxygen demand (a measure of organic pollution) was double the acceptable ...

The river in Haridwar itself caught fire in 1984 when someone put a lit match on the water. "Indians are killing the Ganges with pollution and the polluted Ganges, in turn, is killing Indians ...

The Ganges river is one of the most polluted ... will help shed light on the impact of plastic pollution on the 2,700 kilometre long water body. Their new study shows how plastic bottles, equipped ...

‘Namami’ – ‘I bow before you’. The Sanskrit word is the namesake of the Namami Gange programme devised by the government in 2014 to help restore the Ganges to health. Progress has been patchy. 40 per ...

NARRATOR: Indians believe the Ganges is sacred and regard its water as holy ... yet it is heavily polluted. The pollution affects the river dolphin population. The pupils discover that the ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dolphins are swimming through the trees. Bending sinuous bodies, they glide through branches and curl like snakes ...