The vast Ganges-Brahmaputra river system is located close to an active ... "Abrupt river avulsions could be caused by a major monsoon or cyclone flooding event, or the collapse of a major river ...

A video shows a two-storey building collapsing into the overflowing Ganges river in the northern Indian ... died in Bihar after heavy rainfall caused flooding in several parts of the state.

"The Ganges is above all the river of India, which has held ... A building boom over the past two decades has generated a flood of pollutants and nonbiodegradable trash. Each day thousands of ...

Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges ... masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims ...

Chen Yaning from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that climate warming is increasing flood risks ... with the Ganges Basin having ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...