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 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 ...

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 ...

India's longest and most holy river, the Ganges, is home to thousands of dolphins. But their survival is under threat. But these aren't like the ones found in oceans. They don't leap out of the water ...

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

The vast network of the Ganges ... river pollution. He also said, "Climate change is another major threat to our rivers. Rising sea levels and increased salinity are making the water in coastal ...

RiverRecycle, HCL Foundation, and CDC have launched a joint initiative to reduce plastic pollution in the Yamuna River and ...

Ahmedabad: A comprehensive nationwide survey conducted last year, has put river dolphin numbers in India at 6,327 ... The total population of Ganges river dolphins was estimated to be 2,397 ...

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 ...

“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.