When Indigenous groups converged at the entrance of the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP30) summit in Belém, Brazil, ...

A new species of day gecko has been recorded from a savanna forest with rock outcrops and prehistoric granite caves in Sri Lanka. The Nilgala savanna forest is home to 17 species of geckos, as well as ...

Heavy clouds rolled overhead, clearing out the day’s humidity in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. Below a forested hillside, tea pickers in colorful saris moved among rows of electric-green bushes, as ...

In a press conference today in Colombo, Sri Lanka, US-based NGO Seacology, Sri Lanka-based NGO Sudeesa, and the government of Sri Lanka announced a joint program that will make Sri Lanka the first nat ...

On December 26, 2004, a cataclysmic tsunami struck the coasts of countries in South and Southeast Asia. Sri Lanka was one of the worst affected nations – the wall of water devastated the island’s ...

In 1983, Sri Lanka became embroiled in a 26-year-long civil war in which a rebel militant organization fought to establish an independent state called Tamil Eelam. The war took an enormous human toll; ...

Patrick Roberts, Thomas H. Gillingwater, Marta Mirazon Lahr, Julia Lee-Thorp, Malcolm MacCallum, Michael Petraglia, Oshan Wedage, Uruwaruge Heenbanda, Uruwaruge ...

Chiyo Kanda, World Bank’s Country Manager for Maldives and Sri Lanka At a high-level virtual event to announce Sri Lanka’s Forest Sector Master Plan: Adopting New Sectoral Priorities to Face the ...

Sri Lankan President's declaration of a state of emergency is aimed not at saving lives, but at suppressing potential social ...

The total economic losses incurred are estimated to be around $6-$7 billion. This is more than the country’s foreign reserves ...