A fresh public campaign is underway in Batticaloa against a proposed prawn-farming and an ilmenite mining that is already underway in the east.
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has decided to conduct a public hearing into the planned wind energy project in Mannar by India’s Adani Group.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced Sri Lanka as the recipient of the World Restoration Flagship Award for its outstanding work in accelerating the natural regeneration of mangroves at the Sixth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).
Mannar is one of the oldest cities in Sri Lanka dating back to the maritime Silk Road and the trade routes between India and Sri Lanka. It also has some of the most important wintering wetlands for migratory birds in Sri Lanka.
The ‘DP Tree Book’ mobile app was officially launched during the Earth Summit 2024 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo on 14 February under the patronage of MP Dhammika Perera,
Sumitra Malkandi breaks down as she recounts the fateful evening in March last year when her husband was trampled to death.
Thanks to a nearly three-year partnership, supported by the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), communities across Sri Lanka successfully prevented more than 4,600 metric tons of plastic – the equivalent of 496 million plastic bottles – from entering the ocean around Sri Lanka through the Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO) program.
A group of Lankan research scientists have found three snake species that break their tails like geckos.A collaborative team of Sri Lankan research scientists,
A recent report from the National Audit Office sheds light on concerning conditions at the Dehiwala Zoological Gardens,
At the dawn of the New Year, the Centre for Environmental And Nature Studies (CENS) representative Dimuthu Sandaruwan Senadheera stated ‘when looking at elephant deaths since independence, the most number of elephant deaths are recorded in 2023’.
