2020-11-19 16:08:00
Opposition Leader Premadasa questioned in Parliament regarding the decision to remove the forest systems designated for conservation as ’Remnant Forests’ under Circular No. 05/2001 of the Ministry of Forest Conservation and Environment from the Department of Forest Conservation...
2020-11-17 17:34:00
One-time usable plastic and polythene will be banned from January, 2021, in a move to limit waste for the protection of environment...
2020-11-17 16:51:00
National Movement for a Just Society has commended the measures taken in conservation of Sinharaja Forest Reserve...
2020-11-13 03:25:00
A new study claims we may have already reached a hypothetical ‘point of no return’, but other researchers say this is ‘at odds’ with what we know about climate science. Daisy Dunne examines the arguments..
2020-11-12 22:55:00
Only 1.7 per cent of climate finance – a fraction of what is needed - goes to small-scale farmers in developing countries despite their disproportionate vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, according to a report released by the UN’s IFAD and CPI today...
2020-11-09 17:15:00
Currently most of the remaining forests are located in the dry zone districts of Anuradhapura and Moneragala. Many of these lands function as elephant corridors and watersheds in the dry zone irrigation system...
2020-11-05 21:22:00
After a three-year delay, the US has become the first nation in the world to formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement...
2020-11-04 03:25:00
The last time CO2 concentrations reached today’s level was 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene Epoch. Hear from geoscientists who see evolving conditions in the Arctic as an indicator of how climate change could transform the planet...
2020-10-31 17:25:00
Rivett-Carnac is a founding partner of Global Optimism and co-author of The Future We Choose..
2020-10-31 14:59:00
In late October, sea ice off Siberia has only now begun to start freezing — an unprecedented situation for that part of the Arctic..
2020-10-30 20:04:00
Arctic sea ice has been in decline for a while now, but 2020 is turning out to be — by far — one of the worst years ever...
2020-10-30 18:18:00
Curfew has been imposed in the Western Province from midnight yesterday and all public gatherings, including weddings, have been banned, police said...
2020-10-28 22:51:00
In some ways, Jamie Margolin is just like any other first year university student. She speaks to me from her campus at NYU in New York city, where she’s studying to be a director for film and television...
2020-10-26 16:18:00
Can we trust the silver bullet of technology to fix climate change? The prime minister seems to think so...
2020-10-22 20:32:00
Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists say..
2020-10-21 00:33:00
An asteroid hurtling towards Earth at 25,000mph could strike the planet on the eve of the US general election, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson...
2020-10-13 17:28:00
Trillions of dollars of GDP depend on biodiversity, according to Swiss Re report..
2020-10-10 23:43:00
INSEE Cement, Sri Lanka’s leading and only 100% local cement manufacturer has issued an update and progress report of work completed towards the rehabilitation and reforestation efforts addressing the incident of illegal encroachment and forest clearing in its long-term leased land in Aruwakkalu...
2020-10-10 19:59:00
Huge swathes of tropical forest and grasslands across Brazil are ablaze, and recent satellite data suggests this year will see record fires in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest...
2020-10-06 19:20:00
At least 14m tonnes of plastic pieces less than 5mm wide are likely sitting at the bottom of the world’s oceans, according to an estimate based on new research...
2020-10-06 16:45:00
While 64 countries have signed a global pledge aimed at halting the catastrophic decline of biodiversity, several major nations remain conspicuous in their refusal to work together for the Paris agreement style global commitment to reduce humanity’s impact on the natural world...
2020-10-03 18:18:00
The present government continues the previous Sirisena–Ranil regime’s initiative of handing over 65,000 acres of fertile land in Uva-Wellassa and Bintenna to grow sugarcane to a multinational firm, informed sources divulged...
2020-10-03 14:04:00
Michael Mann, one of the world’s most eminent climate experts, says Earth’s future ‘is in the hands of American citizens’..
2020-10-03 13:33:00
700 acres of land belonging to Muthurajawela wetlands reserve has been unlawfully acquired by a business tycoon, divulged Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera...
2020-10-03 09:19:00
British broadcaster David Attenborough on Wednesday led a campaign by conservation groups for the world to invest $500 billion a year to halt the destruction of nature, saying the future of the planet was in ’’grave jeopardy’’...
2020-10-01 15:08:00
The climate crisis is heating up nights faster than days in many parts of the world, according to the first worldwide assessment of how global heating is differently affecting days and nights...
2020-10-01 13:35:00
Sir David Attenborough has revealed he spent much of lockdown sitting in his garden and ’’listening to birds’’...
2020-09-30 23:54:00
Increased loss of ice could trigger sea level rise of up to 10cm by end of century..
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