He previously worked for Complex Magazine in New York City. Dozens of bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in India as the country deals with a recent increase in COVID-19 cases.
The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...
Unlike gradual shifts observed upstream, this historic event occurred in the Ganges Delta, about 200 kilometres ... Today, up to 170 million people in India and Bangladesh face flood risks from ...
Kolkata: The accelerating glacier melt in the Himalayas is intensifying both flood and drought risks across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, with Kolkata, being at the tail-end of IGP, at the receiving ...
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 ...
A blue stream spews from beneath brick factory buildings in Kanpur, India. The dark ribbon curls down a dirt embankment and flows into the Ganges River. "That's toxic runoff," says Rakesh Jaiswal ...
The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent to the ...
NARRATOR: The Ganges begins its two and half thousand kilometre journey in the Himalayas, travelling rapidly down the mountains to the flat plains of India. It’s one of the world’s biggest ...
The delta is listed among the five most vulnerable globally, alongside the Ganges River Delta (India and Bangladesh), Mississippi River Delta (U.S.), Volta River Delta (Ghana), and Nile River ...
and exploration of the living cultures of the subcontinent—Michael Wood takes us from the tropical heat of South India to the Ganges plain and from Pakistan and the Khyber Pass out to ...
Sue Perkins undertakes an epic, personal journey to the source of India's Ganges river in the Himalayas, meeting hermits and holy men to understand the sacred nature of this river.
A trip to Rishikesh in northern India changed all that. Practising sun salutations on a private beach, lulled by the hypnotic, rolling waters of the River Ganges, my chattering mind quietened for ...