Throwing away crops that have been planted, watered, harvested, packaged and shipped is a relatively new problem in human history. For centuries, people used everything they could: the stalk of a banana tree, vegetable peels, a carrot that…
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Norwegian diplomat Erik Solheim, who once served as peace envoy mediating talks between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers, is back in Sri Lanka, this time appointed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe as his International Climate…
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King Charles III and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, will be crowned May 6 at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday (11), the first coronation in Britain in seven decades and one that will be pared back considerably…
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The huge government fund that invests Norway’s oil revenue said Tuesday (20) that it was going to step up its efforts to persuade companies to slash their carbon dioxide emissions by 2050
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It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying
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Sri Lanka has received $2.5 million in the third interim payment for the impacts caused by the sinking of the X-Press Pearl cargo vessel off the country’s western coast 14 months ago. This is the third tranche of compensation, but Sri…
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Animal rights activists on Friday (9) cheered a move by a shipping giant to alter course in Sri Lankan waters to avoid collisions with blue whales, the world's largest mammals
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Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise with potentially ‘ominous’ implications over this century as temperatures continue to rise, according to a study published Monday (29)
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Cementing its commitment to accelerating clean energy to drive social and economic sustainable growth in Sri Lanka, the US government, through its development agency, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a Memorandum…
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On July 14, after months of economic and social unrest, Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned in disgrace and fled to Singapore, leaving in his wake an economic crisis and a food shortage
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