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Barack Obama was advised, only half-jokingly, to wear a gas mask when he appears as guest of honour at India’s Republic Day parade on Monday. The air pollution in Delhi and other Indian cities has become that bad. Providing a fix for that very unhealthy air –  13 of the world’s most polluted cites are in India  – is a growing priority for the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, and could take key position in a suite of clean energy initiatives the two leaders are expected to roll out on Monday. “The co-operation on clean energy and climate change is critically important,” Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, told a conference call with reporters. America is hoping to persuade  India , one of the world’s biggest emitters, to commit to an ambitious post-2020 plan for reining in its greenhouse gas emissions ahead of the international climate change meeting in Paris this December.

Coral faces a heightened risk of fatal disease if the seabed near it is dug up, according to a landmark study that will reignite the debate over whether dredging projects near the  Great Barrier Reef  should take place. The research , conducted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the Australian Institute of Marine Science, found that dredging near coral reefs doubled the frequency of diseases afflicting corals. The study, the first of its kind to directly address the issue of dredging and coral health, is likely to raise further questions over whether a plan to dredge 3m cubic metres of seabed and dump it within the Great Barrier Reef marine park is a wise one. Facebook Twitter Pinterest expand   White syndrome coral disease. Photograph: F Joseph Pollack Analysis of corals subjected to plumes of seabed sediment found that they were two times as likely to suffer a myriad of different diseases, compared with those untouched by dredging. Worry...