One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. The Ganges River — Ganga in Hindi — is ...

Rishikesh sits along the Ganges River in Uttarakhand, where the city meets the forested foothills of the Himalayas. From ...

Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, India, sits along the Ganges River surrounded by the forested foothills of the Himalayas. This cinematic evening view captures calm green-blue waters, small boats, riverside ...

In the vast Indian subcontinent of South Asia, the flowing great rivers are more than mere natural geographical features.

A major earthquake 2,500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change course, according to a new study. The previously undocumented quake rerouted the main channel of the ...

LIVING IN NEW YORK, amid all the suffering the pandemic has brought here and abroad, I keep returning to a trip I took to the Himalayas. Fifteen years ago I hiked to the glacial source of the Ganges ...

To a lesser extent, Buddhism and Jainism. The Pew Research Center found that some Muslims and Christians also believe its waters have healing properties--though this view would be rare and not ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. In many areas of Bangladesh, the lowlands ...

Not only do the Himalayas include the world’s highest mountains, they are also home to species ranging from snow leopards to ...

The Ganges River — Ganga in Hindi — is the lifeblood of more than 600 million people in India and Bangladesh. Farmers depend on the river for their crops. Millions depend on its water for washing, ...