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The construction team overcame the special geological problems in the Ganges Delta, innovated the “modular steel structure + deep pile foundation” technology, and applied for 7 international ...
Ridding the Ganges of thousands of tons of plastic trash is a complex puzzle. India is starting to put the pieces together. Two rivers, the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda, converge in the western ...
Bangladesh has expressed concern over China's plan to build a massive hydropower dam upstream on the Brahmaputra in Tibet and has formally requested detailed technical information from Beijing.
Himalayan glaciers are not just frozen reservoirs of water; they are the lifeblood of South Asia. These colossal ice masses feed major river systems, including the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra ...
India’s “Mother Ganges” Pristine waters soon become a distant memory as the 2,525 km-long Ganges snakes its way down to the densely populated plains of north India, eventually forming a huge ...
Further downstream, in Bangladesh, the potential manipulation of river flows poses threats to the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, vital for the country’s agriculture and fishing industries, he said. ...
GUWAHATI A team of wildlife conservationists tagged the almost-blind Ganges river dolphin for the first time. A healthy male river dolphin from Kulsi, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, was tagged ...
The platform aims to improve coordination and risk management across World Bank-financed projects in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin. By placing dolphin conservation at the heart of ...
The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Sundarbans, straddling the Ganges and Brahmaputra deltas between India and Bangladesh, is the world's largest mangrove forest. This unique ecosystem is home to the iconic Royal Bengal tiger and ...
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.
The Ganga-Brahmaputra delta landscape sits atop a large pile of mud layers — sediments ferried by the rivers downstream from the Himalayas into the delta — as deep as 30km thick. The mud is vulnerable ...