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 ...

The vast Ganges-Brahmaputra river system is located close to an active plate boundary and is a tectonically active region. "This proximity brings frequent major earthquakes," said Till Hanebuth ...

They are in Patna, which is located on the middle course of the river where the Ganges is over 4km wide. The Ganges is one of the world’s biggest rivers, and seven times the size of the river ...

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 ...

Frenchman Antony Colas returned to surf the Ganges River near Calcutta. The tidal bore, known as the Baan, provided some of the best river waves ever ridden. India's Ganges River has again ...

For many Hindus, a visit to the holy city of Varanasi precedes their pilgrimage to the Kumbh Mela, a city located about 75 ... bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions ...

The blind Indus and the Ganges river dolphins have a tiny eye ... and differentiate between the size and species of fish with this echo-location system. The tropical large river ecosystem in which the ...

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 ...