More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India's holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today, little of the ancient construction remains, ...

Dehradun: A new scientific study has revealed that climate change is altering the water composition flowing from the Gangotri Glacier System (GGS), the source of the River Ganga in the central ...

The breakdown shows snowmelt dominates, supplying 64% of annual flow, but its share is declining; peak discharge has shifted from August to July, driven by reduced winter precipitation and earlier ...

A recently published study by IIT Indore scientists and others has found a telltale effect of climate change on the Gangotri Glacier System, the central Himalayan glacier that feeds the Ganga. The ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Gangotri, one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas and one of the main sources of water for the Ganges River. The Gangotri Glacier is in the Indian ...

ALONG THE GANGES, IndiaALONG THE GANGES, India — More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India’s holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city.