Strategic flooding ("good floods") can reduce the risk of harmful floods, while providing a range of other benefits.

The Ganges begins as streams in the Himalayas and flows for 2,500km (1,600 miles), eventually combining with other major rivers, including the Brahmaputra and the Meghna. It's a huge delta river ...

The delta is listed among the five most vulnerable globally, alongside the Ganges River Delta (India and Bangladesh), Mississippi River Delta (U.S.), Volta River Delta (Ghana), and Nile River ...

Unlike gradual shifts observed upstream, this historic event occurred in the Ganges Delta, about 200 kilometres from its mouth at the Bay of Bengal. Similar river shifts today could endanger ...

Kolkata: In the first comprehensive study on Irrawaddy dolphins — estuarine dolphins that are more salt-tolerant — in the Indian Sundarbans, researche.

The naga sadhus—the iconic naked holy men of the Kumbh Mela—parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who have also come to partake in ...

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 ...

Situada en el delta del Ganges, la región de los Sundarbans abarca 10.000 km² ... The Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF), located in the south-west of Bangladesh between the river Baleswar in the East ...

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So far in graduate school, she has worked on a modeling project that predicted water and sediment discharge in the Ganges-Brahmaputra River through 2100. She is currently assessing delta progradation ...