A newly-described ancient marine dolphin fossil from the Waitaki region is of the same super family as the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to University of Otago, New Zealand, research.

The Indus has defined the inhabitants of regions east of the Indus since at least the last 4000 years. In Avestan, the word Hendu denotes a natural frontier, a river, and Hapta Hendu was an ...

The Indus River dolphin is an ancient creature that swims among us. Alongside the endangered Ganges River Dolphin, which is largely found in neighboring India, ...

River dolphins live in some of the world’s most important rivers, including the Amazon and Orinoco in South America, and the Ayeyarwady, Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Mahakam and Yangtze in Asia. These ...

As the sun sets over a serene stretch of the mighty Ganges, a pair of smooth, grey dolphins arch gracefully out of the water, bringing hope that wildlife can again call India's great river home.

Graphic: Map illustrating the Indus River system with its major rivers highlighted in blue, showing their geographical locations across the India-Pakistan region.

This changed last year, when India's Antara Luxury River Cruises launched an epic itinerary down the Ganges and its sister river, the Brahmaputra. Covering nearly 2,000 miles in 51 days, it is the ...

The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways—and one of its most polluted. To restore it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation.

Cascading hazards of a major Bengal basin earthquake and abrupt avulsion of the Ganges River. Nature Communications. Published online June 17, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47786-4.

A new study suggests an earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.5 or 8 shook the Indian subcontinent 2,500 years ago, changing the course of the Ganges.