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

The country is dominated by the Ganges Delta, the largest river delta in the world, which makes much of its land fertile but also vulnerable to flooding. More than 57 rivers flow through the ...

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 ...

The mighty Indus and Ganges rivers, each stretching from the great Himalayas, scratched a 700,000 km2 fertile plain, the Indo-Gangetic Plain.These rivers like artists created a painting of ...

The Ganges is the longest river in India, stretching over 2,525 kilometres (1,569 miles) from its source in the Himalayas to ...

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 mangrove forest area in the Ganges Delta, formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers, located in the Bay of Bengal. Justin Jones, Deputy Field Director of the ...

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

The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent to the ...

Starting from their core in the Kaveri delta, their empire at its peak covered a large chunk of peninsular India, both its coasts and also expanded into the Deccan. Their campaigns extended much ...