
Colombia's misty mountain world's most irreplacable nature reserve
Global study of top 10 habitats name Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta the most important concentration of threatened wildlife on Earth
Damian Carrington
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Global study of top 10 habitats name Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta the most important concentration of threatened wildlife on Earth
Damian Carrington

Guardian Australia: Documents sought as Adani accused of 'massive ecological changes with adverse impacts' at port development in Gujarat
Oliver Milman

Kavitha Rao: A new grassroots conservation model takes root
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao A green activist's hit-and-run accident prompts a debate over cycling
Kavitha Rao

SciDev.net: Recordings of growling tigers scare elephants and could halt their crop-destroying incursions in Indian villages, a new study shows
Archita Bhatta for SciDev.net

Scientists on Landaa Giraavaru island hunt for culprits behind increasing number of lost nets causing injury to turtles
Damian Carrington in the Maldives
A bitter debate over HFCs heats up ahead of India-US talks
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao: New, tough measures may encourage solar power
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao: Simple data solutions shake up water management
Kavitha Rao

Conservationists say results of census – which revealed largest number since 1970s – is encouraging news for big cats
Ishwar Rauniyar in Kathmandu and Jason Burke

Criminal gangs are hunting the big cats to sell their organs and bones to the Chinese medicine industry. But an alliance between a western charity and local Nepalis is turning the tables, producing a small but encouraging rise in tiger numbers
Lucy Rock

Surge in demand for cashmere drives up goat numbers, who eat up the grass that support antelopes on whom the predators depend
Damian Carrington

Ten thousand turtles have been found in suitcases bound for Singapore by customs officials in Kolkata, India

Kavitha Rao: Man-elephant conflict in India has escalated dangerously
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao: Cataclysmic floods in the northern state of Uttarakhand are reminder India must act to save its fragile mountains
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao: Amid prices rise and power cuts in the Indian capital, and buck-passing between politicians and companies, can renewable power solve the city's energy problems?
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao: Ambitious plan to translocate lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh finally gets green light with Supreme Court ruling
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao: In a tit-for-tat trade battle between the US and India over solar power, what is certain is that the environment will be the loser
Kavitha Rao

Kavitha Rao: Warmer sea and overfishing threaten Mumbai's most famous fish as dwindling populations migrate to distant waters to survive
Kavitha Rao

Environmental group's report on pollution in the country warns emissions may cause 20m new asthma cases a year
John Vidal

Ravi S Jha: India's plan to link 37 rivers would save the country from drought and flood and help feed millions. So why is progress so slow?
Ravi S Jha

Report shows vast forest, shared by India and Bangladesh, is being rapidly destroyed by environmental change
John Vidal

John Vidal: The Chinese capital is just one of hundreds of cities where poisonous air is the fastest growing cause of death
John Vidal

Price of little known seed has rocketed on new-found use as water thickener in controversial fracking process
Rupert Neate