Environment

By Malaka Rodrigo COLOMBO — Folklore has it that babies were delivered by storks, who carried them in slings from their beaks and left them at the door of unsuspecting couples. But the script was flipped for Premathilaka Peramuna, who…
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By Livia Albeck Ripka The United Nations has recommended that the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a list of World Heritage sites that are “in danger,” prompting a fierce reaction from the Australian government, which defended its…
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By Jayantha Wijesingha Sri Lanka is currently experiencing the greatest marine disaster in its history caused by the burning and sinking of the MV X-Press Pearl in the shallow waters less than 10 nautical miles north of Colombo Harbour. It…
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By P .K. Balachandran COLOMBO - The Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a modern phenomenon owning its existence to man’s increasing developmental needs and the expansion of the human population due to improved health and living conditions.…
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By Nick Kilvert and Jane Lee As a small child, Shreen Abdul Saroor remembers getting up before dawn with her father to spy on the masses of migratory birds that would visit her island. The birds were on their way down the Central Asian…
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NEW YORK – The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which includes a new…
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By Somini Sengupta China on Saturday (12) promised incremental new steps to address climate change in the next decade, but signalled that it would not reveal all of its plans before seeing the next moves taken by its main global rival, the…
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By António Guterres As the world marks the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, a promising movement for carbon neutrality is taking shape.  By next month, countries representing more than…
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By Yan Zhuang MELBOURNE — One would think that koalas are easy to find — and count — because they are large, fluffy and mostly immobile since they are prone to sleep for about 20 hours a day. Not so. “It’s the fact that they don’t move…
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By P.K. Balachandran COLOMBO - Last week a news item reminded Sri Lankans of a major problem they might face in the coming years – the accumulation of e-waste, a dangerous environmental polluter. In a significant development, a Sri…
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