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, ...

A lost nuclear device in the Himalayas, filled with plutonium from a secret 1965 CIA-India mission to spy on China, ...

The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and ...

The Ganga River originates from the Gangotri glacier in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, India. Learn about this ...

AT THE height of the Cold War, a covert CIA mission in the Indian Himalayas ended with a startling failure: the disappearance of a plutonium-powered nuclear device on one of the world’s highest ...

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 ...

SWEPT overboard by the churning rapids of the Ganges River, our rafting mate struggled in his life jacket and helmet to get back to our boat, terror flashing in his ...

Worshipped by a billion Hindus and a water source for 400 million, the government is battling to save “Mother Ganga”. A man brushes his teeth as he stands in the polluted water of Ganges river in ...

With her eyes sealed, Ramedi cupped the murky water of the Ganges River in her hands, lifted them toward the sun, and prayed for her husband, her 15 grandchildren and her bad hip. She, like the rest ...