I live in India and have traveled all over, but Varanasi is my favorite city. I love its street food, history, river, and ...

Peak water flows in parts of India's largest river basin have been falling by more than one-sixth every decade, according to ...

Natural and human factors are driving these changes. Climate change disrupts rainfall and dries soils, while earthquakes and ...

Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past February, and I'm now seeing the ...

Ganges water was a beverage of choice in the 16th and 17th centuries for sailors making their way from India to the Netherlands or England. Water from the river simply didn’t go bad, ...

Contemporary Western life has largely done away with religion – a loss we feel most keenly when other losses come to call, as ...

On the banks of the Ganges, between the river's grimy waters and the mounds of trash piling up on the streets, it's easy to think infections. Sponsor Message. It was unnecessary.

Although the Ganges is far from my home and heritage, I grew up on the banks of another famed waterway—the mighty Colorado. Five years ago I followed that river source to sea—by boat, by plane ...

From its origins in the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges flows for 1,570 miles through five of India’s most populous states. A place of worship, a source of livelihoods, of water ...

Boats are a way of life on the Ganges River in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. A major earthquake rerouted the Ganges 2,500 years ago in what's now Bangladesh, a new study found.

ALLAHABAD, INDIA — Among believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin. Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it “Ganga Ma” -- Mother Ganges -- and ...