Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indian Hindu family walks on the shallow banks of the Yamuna river, covered with chemical foam caused by industrial and ...

The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and ...

Ganga Kayak Festival: The annual event takes place in February in Devprayag, a town in Uttarakhand, North India where the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers meet to become the River Ganges.

The Ganges River is in crisis. This lifeline for around 600 million people in India and neighboring countries is experiencing its worst drying period in 1,300 years. Using a combination of historical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: During the festival, devotees worshipped the holy river venerated by Hindus as a mother as well as a goddess, as the Ganges ...

Gulls land on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, in 2015. (Debal Sen) Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons ...

The study reveals that despite the implementation of several schemes for cleaning the Ganga River, its lower reaches remain the most polluted. The Indian government’s efforts to clean the Ganga River, ...

ALLAHABAD, INDIA — Among believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin. Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it “Ganga Ma” -- Mother Ganges -- and they worship ...

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, ...

ALONG THE GANGES, IndiaALONG THE GANGES, India — 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.