Can India clean up its holiest river? It will take a village. Ridding the Ganges of thousands of tons of plastic trash is a complex puzzle. India is starting to put the pieces together.

NITI Aayog, an Indian government think tank, has collaborated with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop a comprehensive geographic information system (GIS) energy map of India ...

This story is part of a National Geographic News series on global water issues. Nearly 30 percent of the world's cotton supply comes from India and Pakistan, much of that from the Indus River ...

My map's scale is twice as large as the old one's." The older version of the graphic was made in 2005 by the cartographer Paul Breding. You can buy a copy of that map on Amazon.

A site called Maps of India has the best, most recent (2010) map of India's population distribution I could find: Ah! Yes, that does look like a recipe for 600 million people without power.

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system developed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The software contains additional tools compared ...