ALONG THE GANGES: 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 ...

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 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 ...

An Indian Hindu family walks on the shallow banks of the Yamuna river, covered with chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution, during Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India, Saturday ...

On Christmas Day, a Japanese tourist tried to enter the water wearing a Santa Claus hat and a red swimsuit on the Ganges ...

India’s largest and most sacred river remains filthy this year on World Rivers Day, with activists citing little progress in ongoing efforts to clean the waterway up. The cleaning of the Ganges has ...

Dozens of dead bodies have washed ashore along the banks of the Ganges river in India as the nation of over 1 billion people continues to battle against an unprecedented second wave of COVID-19.

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