Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Over 11,000 people from 2,392 families were affected in the Kurunegala, Puttalam and Moneragala districts due to floods caused by heavy rains last evening. Several districts in the country experienced heavy rains due to the low pressure that developed in the Bay of Bengal. Over 2,000 people belonging to 584 …
Climate change adaptation methods should focus on specific locales in the country, and serious research should be carried out to find out the extent of its effect to different locales, said Colombo University Science Faculty Zoology Department Senior Lecturer Professor Sarath Kotagama. He said that the climate of the country …
The Sri Lankan Ministry of Environment with assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday unveiled a draft National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy that should help the South Asian nation meet and overcome the massive challenge of climate change. Speaking at the workshop in Colombo to discuss the climate …
A housing and population census would take place for the 14th time on July 14, 2011, a senior official of the Department of Census and Statistics said, adding that maps and charts of 14,013 Grama Niladhari areas had already been prepared to conduct the census. A housing and population census …
Ampara Government Agent Sunil Kannangara has organized a series of programs in Ampara District to plant 120,000 plants in every Divisional Secretariat to mark President Mahinda Rajapaksa
Sri Lanka has drafted a national strategy for climate change adaptation with the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a statement issued by the ADB said. The ADB, working with the Ministry of Environment, has given technical assistance for a new framework to enable Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Ports Authority announced that an oil leak occurred in Colombo port was successfully contained. The Acting Director of Sri Lanka Ports Authority Sampath Kalutharage said that the leak occurred at a pipeline that channeled furnace oil from a ship to the storage complex in Bloemandal area in Colombo. …
Sri Lanka is becoming a power hungry nation. Several coal power plants with a total generation capacity of 3,200 MW are on the anvil. The country’s new energy minister, Champika Ranawaka, wants a nuclear power plant by 2025. That’s a sure sign of change: Ranawaka started his career as an …
The Sri Lankan government is currently discussing and is to decide within the next few weeks, the option of converting all thermal power plants in the country into those run on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The conversion would affect 800MWs of electricity that is currently generated through thermal power. Petroleum …
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has initiated an e-waste management programme for the first time in Sri Lanka with the co-operation of some of the private companies, Chairman of the CEA, Dr. Charitha Herath said. A working programme to collect, dispose, recycle and export e-waste was drawn at a function …
The Sri Lankan government Thursday said over 57,000 families have been affected by floods caused by record setting rains that lashed the capital Colombo and surrounding areas. According to the Disaster Management Centre 260,109 people from 57,920 families have been affected so far and 11 houses have been completely damaged …
The Sri Lankan government has said that Rs. 202 million that has been allocated as flood relief will be distributed to the District Secretariats of Colombo, Kurunegala, Puttalam, Matale, Hambantota and Gampaha districts to assist the flood victims. A second wave of floods brought about by the incessant rains in …
To ensure an e-waste free environment in Sri Lanka, the Central Environment Authority (CEA) together with over a dozen business organisations who are operating in home electronics, information technology, telecommunications industries and waste management service providers have launched an electronic waste management project to eradicate the growing e-waste crisis in …
Sri Lanka is one of the 30 countries that won this year's SEED awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development given by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Sri Lanka was recognized for its project "Rural Enterprise Network (REN)" which aims at linking small-scale farmers to input-output markets through improved product …
This document outlines a comprehensive National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (NCCAS) which lays out a prioritized framework for action and investment for the 2011-2016 period aimed at systematically moving Sri Lanka and its people towards a climate change resilient future. The NCCAS mirrors and supports Sri Lanka’s national development strategy …
Sri Lanka is flirting with nuclear power. Sri Lanka is becoming a power hungry nation. Several coal power plants with a total generation capacity of 3,200 MW are on the anvil. The country’s new energy minister, Champika Ranawaka, wants a nuclear power plant by 2025. That’s a sure sign of …
Input subsidies need to be contemplated with caution, with a clear consideration of the costs and benefits compared with conventional best practice of addressing market failures directly and using social policies to address social objectives with respect to poverty and food insecurity.
Chronic renal failure (CRF) associated with elevated dietary cadmium (Cd) among farming communities in the irrigated agricultural area under the River Mahaweli diversion scheme has reached a significantly higher level of 9,000 patients. Cadmium, derived from contaminated phosphate fertilizer, in irrigation water finds its way into reservoirs, and finally to …
Agricultural pesticides account for at least 250,000 suicide deaths each year, making pesticides the single most common means of suicide worldwide. The proportion of suicide deaths attributable to pesticide self-poisoning varies considerably across the world: in Europe and the Americas fewer than 5% of suicide deaths involve pesticides; in the …
In a prospective cohort study of patients presenting with pesticide self-poisoning, Andrew Dawson and colleagues investigate the relative human toxicity of agricultural pesticides and contrast it with WHO toxicity classifications, which are based on toxicity in rats.
