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 basin is among the 12 showing above-normal snow persistence in 2026 when overall snow cover across the Hindu Kush Himalaya was below-normal for the fourth consecutive year and even broke last ...

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 ...

Following the 11th Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) meeting on July 21, the foreign ministers of the MGC’s six member countries (Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) agreed on the need ...

Heatwaves will become a major threat to Indian agricultural workers and rice production, and the most intense risk from ...

A new study has found that over 77% of the lower Ganga basin has very good groundwater quality for irrigation, despite it being a collection point for most of the river’s agricultural and industrial ...

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, ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India must better regulate the use of water-sucking tubewells as access to water becomes increasingly fraught amid rising temperatures and dwindling resources, ...

India is crisscrossed by hundreds of large and small rivers that have played a defining role in shaping the country’s identity, culture, tourism, and economy. Far more than mere water channels, these ...