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Haroon Siddique
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Indian government accused of systematic crackdown on charity’s activities after British national is turned back at airport
Haroon Siddique

Ahead of Ban Ki-moon’s climate summit in New York, Mary Robinson plays down no-show by Chinese and Indian leaders
Fiona Harvey

Suzanne Goldenberg: India’s prime minister once supported Al Gore and called action on climate change a moral duty, now he tells students ‘climate has not changed, we have changed’
Suzanne Goldenberg

Narendra Modi’s government pleads to exempt 46 illegally granted licences arguing total shutdown will cripple the power sector
Karl Mathiesen

Tim Flannery: The Great Barrier Reef is sick. Almost half of its coral is already dead and a massive new coal mine, which was given final approval this week, will only cause further damage. This is not just an issue for Australia, it affects us all
Tim Flannery

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar: BJP-led government gives in to demands from nationalist RSS to not surrender country’s food security to foreign companies
Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

Janaki Lenin: Few people saw ‘Macavity’ and even fewer worried about him, but now Indian forestry officials want to trap and relocate him
Janaki Lenin

A plan to reintroduce native species battles with a mesquite known as 'the mad one' planted by a maharajah in the 1930s
Maseeh Rahman in Delhi

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar: Upward trend in forest cover seems far-fetched to some observers, as land is given over to power stations and mining
Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

Shreya Dasgupta: I Got Garbage project brings informal waste recyclers in India's IT capital face-to-face with the people who create the rubbish
Shreya Dasgupta

Janaki Lenin: Faster approvals for military projects along China border could put 60 national parks and their iconic animals at risk
Janaki Lenin

Soumya Mukerji: Conservation biologist Bahar Dutt's book Green Wars explores the tension between development and the environment
Soumya Mukerji

The success of leather production in the Indian city of Kanpur comes at significant environmental and social cost, with toxic chemicals poisoning water and causing residents an array of health problems

With a 90% chance of the global weather phenomenon striking this year, impacts both devastating and beneficial will be felt from India to Peru
Damian Carrington in London, Suzanne Goldenberg Goldenberg in Washington DC and Graham Readfearn in Brisbane

A conservation charity is helping residents to learn to live with the leopards rather than relocating them
Patrick Keddie in Mumbai
Kavitha Rao Conservationists call for a long-term solution to repeated clashes
Kavitha Rao

Plan to build 160 dams in the northeast may cut reliance on coal, but would damage wildlife and habitat, and the power generated won't benefit locals, critics say
Kieran Cooke, for the Climate News Network, part of the Guardian Environment Network

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk: We are often most moved when life teems all about us – which is why 20 March has been designated World Sparrow Day by India's Nature Forever Society
Mark Cocker

A notorious veterinary drug that killed millions of vultures in India is now on sale in Europe
Adam Welz

AlertNet: Giant solar power project may touch on Sambhar Lake wetlands protected under the international Ramsar Convention
Saket S. for AlertNet, part of the Guardian Environment Network

Kavitha Rao: As the government clears projects at breakneck speed, greens protest
Kavitha Rao

Floating sensors released by Australia and India to investigate climate change, food, energy and health security issues
Helen Davidson

Illegal trade in Pakistan for fur described as 'king of wools' is decimating tiny remaining population
Rina Saeed Khan in Islamabad

A world heritage site goes unprotected as stakeholders argue
Kavitha Rao