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How long does Covid immunity last?
Experts have warned that exposure to the coronavirus — through vaccination or infection — does not mean that you are completely protected from future infections. Rather, the coronavirus is evolving to behave more like its closely related…
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A year since X-Press Pearl sinking, Sri Lanka is still waiting for compensation
A year since the sinking of the cargo ship the X-Press Pearl, Sri Lanka continues to clean its beaches of the plastic pellets that the vessel was carrying, and still trying to claim compensation for the environmental damage wrought
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Getting the world clean, one recycled bar of soap at a time
By collecting, melting, reforming and packaging partially used soap left behind by hotel guests, the nonprofit has distributed nearly 70 million bars of soap in more than 120 countries, including Romania, where many Ukrainian refugees have…
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The ocean’s biggest garbage pile is full of floating life
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was less a garbage island than a garbage soup of plastic bottles, fishing nets, tires and toothbrushes. And floating at its surface were blue dragon nudibranchs, Portuguese man-o-wars and other small…
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In the ocean, it’s snowing microplastics
As long as there has been marine life, there has been marine snow — a ceaseless drizzle of death and waste sinking from the surface into the depths of the sea.
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Early action and early warnings save lives
Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the report ’Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability’, and delivered a stark warning about the impact of climate change on people and the…
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Record seizures mark Sri Lanka’s rise as a smuggling hub for star tortoises
By Malaka Rodrigo and Pragati Prava
Inside an opulent shopping mall in the Thai capital Bangkok, a casually clad man meets a potential customer. They discuss how to bring live tortoises into the country to sell as pets.
“I have 560…
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‘Nurdles are everywhere’
By Zinara Rathnayake
COLOMBO - When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and…
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A disastrous 2021 and conservation challenges in 2022
By Jayantha Wijesingha
Environmental conservation in Sri Lanka is as challenging as the economy of the country. Environmental degradation is fully supported and carried out with the blessings of corrupt politicians. This has been the case…
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First fires, then floods
By Damien Cave
WEE WAA — Two years ago, the fields outside Christina Southwell’s family home near the cotton capital of Australia looked like a dusty, brown desert as drought-fuelled wildfires burned to the north and south.
Last week,…
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