National Geographic - UK (2022-04)
Fisherman Babu Sahni, 30, and his son Himanshu Kumar Sahni, eight, approach a bank on the Punpun River, a Ganges tribu- tary. Th ...
The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminat- ing and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Sara Hylton ...
IN THE PAST DECADE, as the world has awakened to the growing accumulation of plastic debris in our oceans, the efforts to solve ...
Sita Ram Sahni (seated), 70, and his nephew Vinod Sahni, 50, pose in front of their home on the Ganges’s north bank in Bihar. Th ...
river in the Bay of Bengal. In a busy commercial district, Jambeck walked slowly along a row of shops and cafés, her eyes on the ...
Ya m un a G an (G ga an ge s) R am ga ng a Ga rr a Chamb al Betwa Alaknanda Bhagirathi R. Chauka R. Tons Lucknow Kanpur Gwalior ...
Ja m u na Brah maputra Yar lung (^) Zan (Bra gbo hmap utra) Ti sta H oo gh ly Da mo da r Ko si Sun (^) K os i Aru n G an da k So ...
“We need those people who are 6,000 miles away to come to the table and be open to change,” she told me. Like climate change, pl ...
I N KOLKATA, I MET A FLOWER VENDOR named Goutam Mukherjee who told me he gave up selling fresh flowers years ago. We were standi ...
‘The biggest waste management infrastructure is the river itself ... That’s not an easy thing to fix.’ Heather Koldewey, Nationa ...
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People in the Ganges Basin use stairways such as the Chandi Ghat in Haridwar to reach the river for a dip in what they see as pu ...
C OULD YOU INSTEAD just collect waste from the river itself? In 2017, as global concern about ocean plastics was cresting, two s ...
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The Ganges is worshipped by Hindus as a goddess with the power to cleanse souls— and itself. That complicates efforts to clean u ...
A dump in Patna illustrates a pervasive problem in the Ganges Basin: Lack of adequate trash collection has resulted in plastic b ...
tributaries, to “go to the cities in the delta (Dhaka and Kolkata) and deploy in the small streams of these cities.” After I ret ...
In Asia, Africa, and both Americas, river-cleansing operations are under way. But the Ganges is too wide, and the trash in it to ...
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on Indian streets—bottles are the highest value recyclables. Plastic waste makes up roughly half of waste pickers’ earnings, and ...
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