2021-03-02 21:25:00
David Attenborough has described his new two-part BBC series as a break from his recent “woe is me” documentaries addressing the bleak reality of climate change...
2021-02-27 08:23:00
Emerging-market nations are looking at issuing the first nature-linked bonds as part of talks involving the World Bank and major sovereign creditors to make their debt more sustainable...
2021-02-24 12:38:00
The veteran broadcaster tells the UN Security Council the climate crisis is the ’’biggest threat to security’’ humans have faced...
2021-02-21 19:03:00
In a village in the Indian Himalayas, generations of residents have believed that nuclear devices lie buried under the snow and rocks in the towering mountains above...
2021-02-18 08:36:00
The destruction of natural resources is taking place hitting a peak in the present days and the government has been informed in this regard, emphasised Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne addressing a discussion held in the Defence Ministry...
2021-02-17 15:55:00
Associating climate change, normally connected with roasting heat, with an unusual winter storm that has crippled swaths of Texas and brought freezing temperatures across the southern US can seem counterintuitive. But scientists say there is evidence that the rapid heating of the Arctic can help push frigid air from the north pole much further south, possibly to the US-Mexico border...
2021-01-30 04:29:00
Water was traded on Wall Street alongside oil and gold for the first time in early December 2020. That might seem bizarre, but there is a grim logic at play. Reliable sources of water that have nourished civilisations throughout history – the glaciers and ice packs that release a steady flow each spring – are shrinking. New research has revealed that the world is losing ice 65% faster now than it did in the 1990s, at a rate of 1.3 trillion tonne..
2021-01-23 14:29:00
In a tweet Lord Ahmad addressed Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and said that the two countries are collaborating on climate change and trade...
2021-01-17 22:02:00
The Global Youth Climate Network (GYCN), an initiative of the World Bank Group, has appointed Talal Rafi as a Climate Ambassador for 2021...
2021-01-09 14:50:00
The world may be barreling towards climate disaster but rapidly eliminating planet-heating emissions means global temperatures could stabilize within just a couple of decades, scientists say...
2021-01-04 09:30:00
In the occurrence of a massive environmental destruction throuhgout the island, Sri Lanka found 2020 to be the year of eco-devastation in the history we know...
2020-12-31 14:07:00
Devastated by the pandemic, the public worldwide is forced to wear a facemask as a mandatory option amid the day-to-day activities, in addition to social distancing. But for Sri Lanka, wearing one at some point may be a getaway factor from Police and the health authorities...
2020-12-30 12:42:00
Climate specialists not being listened to despite Covid showing importance of following science, activist says..
2020-12-24 14:50:00
Environment Minister instructs sand - soil excavators to contribute to Eco-Conservation..
2020-12-19 17:25:00
The Canadian winter can be tough for deer, as temperatures plummet and food becomes scarce. But Carrot, a whitetail buck living in northern Ontario, faces an additional challenge: he has an arrow sticking out of his head...
2020-12-14 09:22:00
The UN secretary general has called on all countries to declare a climate emergency or face ’’catastrophic’’ results...
2020-12-11 04:25:00
Sri Lanka has sent back the first batch of hundreds of containers of waste to the U.K., becoming the latest nation in the Global South to push back against abuses of a worldwide recycling framework by exporters in the West...
2020-12-11 02:25:00
By next month, countries representing more than 65 per cent of harmful greenhouse gasses and more than 70 per cent of the world economy will have committed to achieve net zero emissions by the middle of the century...
2020-12-08 15:55:00
Climate crisis likely to cause warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers, says Met Office..
2020-12-08 10:07:00
More than 60,000 koalas were among the animals badly affected by the bushfire crisis in Australia a year ago, according to a report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia...
2020-12-02 15:47:00
Sri Lankan scientist Asha de Vos, founder of Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education nonprofit, was honoured with the Sea Hero of the Year, by Scuba Diving Magazine...
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...
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