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(Nation – By Gagani Weerakoon) Those green mountains coated with white mist will no longer be able to cover the fact that Kandy- by its geographical location, as well as by short-sighted human activities, tops the list of cities with the worse air pollution. Research carried out in the [...]
(Sunday Island) Life on Earth suffers catastrophic extinctions every 27 million years, according to researchers.
For at least the last 500 million years, say Adrian Melott, an astrophysicist at the University of Kansas, and Richard Bambach, a palaeontologist at the Smithsonian Institute, there has been a burst of [...]
(The Island) It must be at least 30 years since I slept more than 5 hours a night. When I got married , we shared the bed with an Irish wolfhound , the size of a small donkey. Since my husband died , there have been 3 dogs on the [...]
(Daily News) Secluded beaches, lush jungles and a rich culture make Sri Lanka an island of bliss, says Fiona Barton of Daily Mail who visited terror-free Sri Lanka after one year of war victory.
I am woken in the middle of the night by the silence. A world away from the all-night [...]
(Daily Mirror – By S H Mithrapala, Krishan Dilrukh and W A Nelka)
The two-day ( June 22 and June 23) workshop held at Tangalla Bay Hotel coupled with three field visits to home gardens had been organised exclusively for the media by the New Environment Resource Alliance (New ERA) of Ambalantota in [...]
(Daily News – by Dr Ruwantissa Abeyrathne)
Carbon emissions on large scale. File photo
Most view the environment in its simplistic sense – that it is the overall summation of all things natural. In this context, as Nobel laureate Amartya Sen observes, the pervasive common view is this state of nature [...]
(The Island – by Dr. Ruwantissa Abeyratne)
The threat of oil pollution comes both from tankers laden with oil and from offshore oil rigs. On 24 March 1989, the United States suffered a major pollution event in its history when the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in [...]
(Lakbima) Photojournalist Juliet Coombe is suprised to discover hundreds of deer have turned Trincomalee into their home and explores the legend that has made these beasts of the forests everyday sights.
Some cities have meandering cows, other Sri Lankan fortified towns wild goats and giant monitor lizards roam in search of fresh water, but [...]
(Daily Mirror – By Richard Black)
Climate scientists at a top U.K. research unit have emerged from an inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact but with a lack of openness criticised. The Independent Climate Change Email Review was set up by the University of East Anglia (UEA) after more than 1,000 e-mails [...]
(The Island ) What fun animals are! The more you read about them, the more fascinating their lives become. Look at lizards. I am not going to tell you about their adhesive feet and changing colours because you know all that. But people like my son who can face [...]
(The Island – By Jayantha Jayewardene)
Many lives, both human and elephant, are lost as a result of the human-elephant conflicts that are prevalent in most parts of the country. When an elephant is killed the carcass is buried or burnt. No further thought is given to the effect that [...]
Secluded beaches, lush jungles and a rich culture make Sri Lanka an island of bliss
(gn) I am woken in the middle of the night by the silence. A world away from the all-night bustle that is the bus stop outside our London flat, I have been disturbed by the absence of [...]
A passion for wildfruit trees and medicinal plants has seen Damitha’s mini-arboretum flourish
(Sunday Times – by Renuka Sadanandan)
Almost every morning before he goes to work, Damitha Rajapakse stops by the property near his home in Gampaha. Standing there amidst the trees and tangled vines, amidst the birdsong and the cool [...]
(Sunday Times) A moderate earthquake or tsunami hitting Sri Lanka cannot be ruled out says Professor C.B. Dissanayake
The question that every one keeps asking geologists is – “What are the chances of another tsunami occurring in Sri Lanka and is the country now earthquake prone?”
The fear of another tsunami [...]
(Daily News) Keynote address by Ports and Aviation Deputy Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardena at the second Forum of the Asia-Pacific Region Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) on ‘Space Application for Environment’ held on June 28 and 29 in Mount Lavinia
The natural environment is the source of human well-being, and we [...]
(The Island) Humans protect their immediate families. After that come their relatives and friends and then their nation. Maybe. Animals protect their families, their entire community often putting their own lives at risk.When a herd of zebras comes under attack, the herd’s leader, the stallion, adopting a zigzag method, runs to the attacker and kicks [...]
(Daily News – by Disna Mudalige)
Our planet is at a critical juncture today, in the wake of the climate calamity. In the name of modern development, man has constantly been exploiting the bountiful natural resources of our mother earth. The earth strives to fulfill an infinite set of ever [...]
(Daily News – by Lionel Wijesiri)
According to the latest reports, the tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka have doubled from January to May this year when compared to tourist arrivals for the same period last year. Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka last year amounted to 450,000 tourists and the [...]
Unexpected pleasures mark a Sri Lankan sojourn.
Sri Lanka’s endless stretch of sea and sand is legendary and it’s easy to visit the country and never leave its palm tree-lined coast. But those who do, never regret it for just a few kilometres inland, beaches give way to plains dotted with impressive [...]
(Daily Mirror – by Ashoka Abeygunawardane) BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster occurred on 20th of April and it has become a transforming incident in the history of deepwater exploration inviting all off-shore drilling countries to revisit their original plans. On 20th of April, BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil well pressure [...]
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