"The tidal basin of the Ganges Delta is as big as the Amazon," he says. "While it may be infested with crocodiles and disease, I'm positive there are bigger, and better, waves to be discovered." ...

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 dark ribbon curls down a dirt embankment and flows into the Ganges River. "That's toxic runoff," says Rakesh Jaiswal, a 48-year-old environmental activist, as he leads me along the refuse ...

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 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 ...