Jaffna recorded the highest level of air pollution in Sri Lanka, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of 142, while Colombo ranked fourth among the country’s most polluted cities with a
Air pollution carried by heat, wildfires and atmospheric currents has exposed an estimated 40% of the world’s population to extremely high levels of ground-level ozone during the first eight months of 2026,
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El Niño is approaching record intensity, with sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific already reaching levels comparable with those recorded at the peak of the record-setting event in 2015. A study by
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Climate change is causing losses that extend beyond homes, crops, income and physical infrastructure, with communities experiencing damage to mental health, cultural identity, social cohesion and ways of life that are difficult
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The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
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Glaciers throughout the region have thinned by approximately half a metre each year since 2000, Immerzeel says. The glacier close to the collapsed slope retreated more than 300 metres between 2010 and
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At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide in 2025, according to Global Witness, bringing the number of documented killings and long-term disappearances since 2012 to more than 2,375. The
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The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves towards “peak water” by mid-century, according to a
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The world promises net zero while global energy demand and fossil fuel consumption continue to rise. Fossil fuels accounted for around 88 per cent of global energy production in 2024, while greenhouse
More When Milan Shrestha returned to the aftermath of devastating floods in northern Nepal, his family hotel in Betrawati was gone. His parents, both in their late 50s, had escaped by moving uphill,
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The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, according to meteorological data reconstructed and analysed
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The disaster that struck the Nepal-China border on August 26 has forced scientists to reconsider how high-mountain hazards are assessed. What began with the collapse of a glacier-rock system near Langtang Lirung
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The United Nations Environment Programme has acknowledged that the world is on course to exceed the 1.5°C limit established as a key ambition of the Paris climate accord, with the planet now
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At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola into the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river systems. The surge struck
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake chaired a meeting recently for a discussion on strengthening preparedness and response to El Nino conditions. Many relevant government ministers and government officials participated in this discussion. This
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For a nation still recovering from its 2022 economic collapse, Cyclone Ditwah was not just a weather event. It was a fiscal earthquake. When the cyclone made landfall on the eastern coast
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