India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge in places on its journey through burgeoning cities ...

Now, for the first time, scientists have evidence that earthquakes can reroute rivers: It happened to the Ganges River 2,500 years ago. The Ganges snakes its way from the Himalaya Mountains ...

When 2,500 years ago, an earthquake changed the course of one of Earth's largest rivers, it totally altered the landscape. Could it happen again? A study has found a major earthquake 2,500 years ...

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 ...

Teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were deployed to search for the two girls, whose bodies were eventually ...

Miss India Nandini Gupta’s gown for the grand finale of the 72nd Miss World may have been designed by a Vietnamese fashion designer, but it symbolises River Ganges, revered by the people as an ...

The meltwater of the Gangotri glacier, high in the Himalayas, is the primary source of the sacred river Ganges, seen here in ...