Toxic foam is covering India's Yamuna River, a main tributary to the Ganges River and considered sacred to Hindus, leading an expert to say the river no longer supports life. Gavin Newsom proposes ...

India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river ... Brahmaputra River and emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The river and its tributaries are a vital water source for hundreds of millions ...

A leading river expert in the Indian state of West Bengal says that constant erosion may lead to the merging of the Ganges with a smaller tributary, affecting thousands of villagers. The expert, ...

It is situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Varuna and Assi, both tributaries of the Ganges, which join the river course here. The city’s spiritual and tourist center, on the western ...

One stretch of the Yamuna River, the Ganges' main tributary, has been devoid of all aquatic creatures for a decade. In Varanasi, India's most sacred city, the coliform bacterial count is at least ...

For years, the Ganges clean-up has been a political ... industrial effluents are still being discharged in the river or its tributaries, in absence of requisite functional treatment capacity”.

Many of the same scientists were involved in a previous study, published in January 2021, which suggested the Ganges River and its tributaries could be responsible for up to 3 billion microplastic ...

As per a 2018 National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) report, their population in the river and its tributaries reduced from about 10,000 in the late 19th century to around 3,526 in 2014.

Large-scale sand extraction disrupts river ecosystems by altering water ... approximately 4,000 Gangetic dolphins currently inhabit the Ganga and its tributaries, with nearly 2,000 residing ...

GUWAHATI A team of wildlife conservationists tagged the almost-blind Ganges river dolphin for the first time. A healthy male river dolphin from Kulsi, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, was tagged ...