"The Ganges is above all the river of India ... deputy coordinator of the River Pollution Campaign at the Center for Science and the Environment, a watchdog group in New Delhi, India's capital.

You can't fix the environment without fixing society. Otherwise, it's just not fair, writes Rahul Verma.

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies ...

Microplastics have been found in all major European rivers, highlighting urgent concerns about pollution and plastic ...

Effective river water management is the most reliable method of guaranteeing environmental stability and sustainable economic ...

The particles are less than five millimetres in size, with the smallest invisible to the naked eye. Read more at straitstimes ...

Scientific studies on nine major waterways reveal an 'alarming' pollution by small particles. For the first time, a bacterium ...

"The pollution is present in all European ... in the world's 10 most polluted rivers -- the Yellow River, Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges, Nile, Niger, Indus, Amur, Pearl and Hai -- which irrigate ...

The previous record stood at 329 people and was set on the River Ganges, in India ... "And as someone who is working on plastic pollution that is incredibly important," he added.