The Ganges begins as streams in the Himalayas and flows for 2,500km (1,600 miles), eventually combining with other major rivers, including the Brahmaputra and the Meghna. It's a huge delta 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 ...

The paper, by E.K. Karlsson at the Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Natural Selection in a Bangladeshi Population from the Cholera-Endemic Ganges River Delta." ...

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

Prominent deltas, including the Mekong, Niger, Indus, Nile, Chao Phraya, and Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna ... regional and local ...