Ganges

...oversees the Species Survival Plan programs, one for each of 116 threatened or endangered species that range from the great apes to the Ganges gharial, a pencil-snouted cousin of alligators, crocodiles and caimans. Lukas chairs the...

In this article: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, Endangered species, Red Panda, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and North America

...alongside the martyrs, in which he is projected at the gallows. 'On this sacred land where there is a confluence of three holy rivers (Ganga, Yamuna and the Saraswati), we have paid homage to the martyrs of the 26/11 Mumbai terror...

In this article: Mumbai, Saraswati, Ganga, and Yamuna

...it keeps getting polluted it's going to vanish in the next few years." In the harsh light of day, scientists from the Swachcha Ganga (clean Ganges) laboratory try to confirm just how bad it is. They test water quality every day, and the...

In this article: Varanasi, Jairam Ramesh, and India

...in international river basins, including the Araks and Kura Rivers in the South Caucasus; the Lower Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia, the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna River Basin in South Asia, the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia, and the...

In this article: Maryland, Brahmaputra, and Aral Sea

...book calls the largest silver objects ever created. They were made for the Maharajah Sawai Madho Singh II to fill with holy water from the Ganges when he traveled to London for King Edward VII's coronation. Around the corner is the Hawa Mahal,...

In this article: Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Jaipur, India, Hawa Mahal, Cappuccino, Ashok, and Silver

...and that's because I lost Lee." Last year, Selvey, along with Lee's adult daughter, Tara, threw the bulk of his ashes in the Ganges River. It was a return of sorts for Selvey, who lived in India with Lee in 2001 while working on polio...

In this article: Climate change, Greenpeace, Queensland Conservation Council, Washington, Brisbane, Queensland, India, and Tour de France

...since I first travelled to Char Atra, a low-lying sand island of thatched huts, paddy fields and banana trees, in the middle of the Ganges. It is in southern Bangladesh, one of the regions of the world considered most vulnerable to...

In this article: Climate change, Bangladesh, Global warming, Banana, Ganges river dolphin, Tin, and Oxfam

...Bangladesh is ponds, thus solving one of the world's great poisoning mysteries. Bangladesh occupies the flood-prone delta of the river Ganges. In the past half-century, villagers have had to dig pits for soil to raise their homes above the...

In this article: Arsenic, Bangladesh, Carbon, Oxygen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dhaka, and London

...does is unintentional, so it's easy to imagine that Williams' bleach job was a purifying ritual of sorts, a dip in the pop-punk Ganges to rid oneself of post-adolescence. Or, of course, it could just be a sign of a mood swing by one of...

In this article: Paramore, Hayley Williams, Mood swing, Brand New Eyes, Trademark, Platinum, Billboard, Misery Business, and Los Angeles Times

Nov 3 - Devotees light lamps in the Ganges and vow to clean up India's sacred river. Click on any video below, from any channel, to add it to your playlist. Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency,...

In this article: Thomson Reuters, Small business, NYSE, Nasdaq, and India