Sri Lankan police have arrested a man suspected of shooting Kawanthissa, one of the country’s best-known wild tuskers, and seized two illegal firearms as authorities investigate the circumstances surrounding the elephant’s death
Government officials, development experts, business leaders, and civil society representatives gathered in Bangkok for the 13th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, issuing an urgent call to accelerate action on water security, clean
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Construction of the Jaffna International Cricket Stadium on Mandativu Island, inaugurated on September 1, 2025, under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s patronage, has been ordered to stop until an environmental impact assessment is
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Police in Catania say a dog has been caught on CCTV allegedly trained by its owner to dump rubbish illegally, highlighting growing fly-tipping problems in the city. Security footage from the San
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Humans and elephants have coexisted in Sri Lanka for thousands of years, yet today about 70% of elephant habitats overlap with human settlements, creating persistent conflict. Farmers cultivating crops in elephant-populated areas
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In a remote stretch of the western Pacific Ocean, far from major cities and daily headlines, the atmosphere has begun to behave in a way that worries climate scientists. For the second
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Kenya and Somalia are facing a deepening drought emergency that is devastating pastoralist livelihoods, driving distress sales of livestock, and raising the risk of conflict over scarce resources, according to reporting by
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The U.S. Embassy in Colombo this week welcomed a team of engineers and medical professionals from the Montana National Guard as they worked alongside Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre and other government
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Entire neighbourhoods in a hilltop town in southern Sicily have been torn apart by a massive landslide triggered by extreme rainfall, forcing the evacuation of around 1,500 residents and leaving buildings split
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Global ocean temperatures climbed to some of the highest levels ever recorded in 2025, underscoring the relentless accumulation of heat within the Earth’s climate system and intensifying alarm among scientists. According to
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Sri Lanka’s central hill country experienced an unusual cold snap this week as Nuwara Eliya recorded a minimum temperature of 3.5 degrees Celsius in the 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m. on
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In India, all said and done, despite steady growth in industrial and infrastructure projects and in the services sector, including the software industry in recent years, the Indian economy essentially remains agricultural-based,
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The reinforcement of global climate commitments and the expansion of carbon markets, an emerging pattern is traced, embedded in the mechanisms designed for the equitable distribution of climate finance; are replicating and
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Sri Lanka’s recent landslide tragedy, described by officials as a “model disaster,” has once again exposed a stark truth: the country’s development has advanced without the guidance of its own long-established planning
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ordered the Cabinet of Ministers and the Disaster Management Committee to appear before it on July 15 to answer allegations that the government failed to take necessary
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The year 2025 was officially the world’s third-warmest year on record, with average temperatures just 0.01 degrees Celsius cooler than 2023, according to data released Wednesday by the European Centre for Medium-Range
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