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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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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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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By Mark Landler LONDON — As Britain begins hosting a landmark climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the milestones of its own evolution to a more climate-friendly economy are on vivid display along the railroad line from London to Scotland.…
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By Somini Sengupta As presidents and prime ministers arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for a pivotal climate summit, the outcome will determine, to a large extent, how the world’s 7 billion people will survive on a hotter planet and whether…
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By Brad Plumer The world’s countries have begun to make meaningful progress in the fight against climate change over the past decade, new data shows, thanks to a rapid expansion of clean energy. Yet the planet is still on track for…
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By Catrin Einhorn The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas, is gone forever, according to federal officials. So is the Bachman’s warbler, a yellow-breasted songbird that once migrated between…
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By Siraj Hussain and Sarah Khan While the world’s attention is focused on the formation of a responsible government in Afghanistan, its citizens face a serious food crisis. It is estimated that that about half of the country’s population,…
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By Malaka Rodrigo  MANNAR — Born in the frozen Arctic tundra, a population of Heuglin’s gull (Larus fuscus heuglini) heads to tropical Sri Lanka every year during the harsh Northern Hemisphere winter. On the Indian Ocean island, they…
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By Somini Sengupta KABUL - Parts of Afghanistan have warmed twice as much as the global average. Spring rains have declined, most worryingly in some of the country’s most important farmland. Droughts are more frequent in vast swaths of the…
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