News from IFGR and the rivers

A tributary of the Ganges, the Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in India and, undoubtedly, in the world. While devout Hindus celebrated the festival of Chhath Puja in November, a new wave of foam most likely originating from industrial discharges, invaded its waters. This pollution of the water follows on the heels […]

A young Indian entrepreneur who has set up his own company, Omnipresent Robot Tech in New Delhi, has decided to place his knowhow in robotics in the service of cleaning his country’s rivers, with the Ro-Boat.

In Bangladesh, a country that has hundreds of increasingly polluted rivers, an unprecedented legal decision was taken at the beginning of July. The Supreme Court granted rights to all the country’s rivers as living beings, and gave them a legal character to better protect them. An essential step for the rights of nature The Court […]

Interview with Mohammad Mozammel Haque, President of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and member of IFGR   Mohammad Mozammel Haque is the President of the BIWTA, which is the authority responsible for controlling river transport in Bangladesh. He explains the challenges that rivers face in this country, one of the most vulnerable to […]

Although climate change is a global reality, its effects are not uniform for all the regions of the world or for the same type of environment. This has been revealed by a huge international study published in the journal Nature. Performed in the Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau  – the largest area […]

Interview with Franck Vogel, photographer, journalist and film director.   Trained as an agronomic engineer, Franck Vogel became a photographer after a voyage around the world that changed his life. Now a photographer, he travels to discover rivers and their populations and expresses their problems through his images. Interview with the author of Fleuves Frontières […]