A recent report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), a statutory organisation under India’s Ministry ... report which analysed Ganges water said: “The river water quality was not ...

Products made from plastic have become a critical problem, polluting bodies of water worldwide ... The Ganges River is similarly one of the . The air quality problem in India remains an issue ...

India is home to 90% of Ganges River dolphin population ... projects (for instance, water extraction and the construction of barrages, high dams and embankments), pollution (industrial waste ...

The world record for a volunteer river clean-up has been smashed by 998 with 1,327 people taking part. The previous record ...

“Today, the greatest threats to the Indus river dolphin in the Beas river are water availability and pollution,” conservationist Sandeep Behera was quoted as saying by Mongabay India last year.

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna system is the largest river network in India ... run-off further degrade its water quality. Despite various clean-up efforts, pollution remains a major challenge ...

Independent researchers have discovered and described two new species of Glyptothorax, a genus of hillstream catfish, from ...

India is home to two species of freshwater dolphins: Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica ... to threats such as habitat destruction, water pollution, and accidental entanglement in fishing ...

NEW DELHI, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Officials from India and Bangladesh Friday concluded a two-day meeting of the Joint River Commission ... the 30-year-old Ganga/Ganges Water Treaty (GWT), which ...