India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests. Such changes have been observed in other rivers in recent ...

The heart of Indian Culture, and home to over one quarter of India ’s population, the Ganges is one of the most fertile and infrastructure -heavy river valleys in the planet.

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, even when ...

For 2015, Pandaw River Expeditions, a 20-year-old river cruise operator with strong roots in Southeast Asia, offered a single October departure on India's Ganges and Hooghly rivers on the 40 ...

But all is not well with the Ganges. A crowd gathers for a prayer ceremony dedicated to the river Ganges in Varanasi, one of Hinduism's holiest cities, on Oct. 17, 2019, in India.

Anthony Acciavatti's book Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India's Ancient River is an insanely ambitious piece of field research. Starting in 2005, the New York'based architect and author began ...