Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...

"Alarming" pollution of on average "three microplastics per cubic metre of water" was observed in all of them ... in the ...

Products made from plastic have become a critical problem, polluting bodies of water worldwide ... and third-place culprits produce. The Ganges River is similarly one of the ...

A recent report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB ... The CPCB report which analysed Ganges water said: “The river water quality was not conforming to the primary water quality ...

Scientific studies on nine major waterways reveal an 'alarming' pollution by small particles. For the first time, a bacterium ...

Independent researchers have discovered and described two new species of Glyptothorax, a genus of hillstream catfish, from ...

Forty percent of India gets its water from the Ganges ... a sacred pilgrimage to the river. Tests showed that biochemical oxygen demand (a measure of organic pollution) was double the acceptable ...

The world record for a volunteer river clean-up ... NRW's sustainable water manager, said it was "driving improvements through robust water regulation and pollution incident response." ...

Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...

"The pollution is present in all European ... in the world's 10 most polluted rivers -- the Yellow River, Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges, Nile, Niger, Indus, Amur, Pearl and Hai -- which irrigate ...