There is also a specific lesson here. Organic farming may sound good in principle (if you just listen to the ideological marketing), but in practice it is a disaster. Sri Lanka has decided to do what ...

expand on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) capabilities; monitor illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing; and support the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) in countering human ...

In the sweltering heat of western Sri Lanka, nearly 200 women are still busy collecting plastic nurdles washed ashore from the X-Press Pearl disaster [Saroj Pathirana/Al Jazeera] Three years after ...

In the sweltering heat of western Sri Lanka, nearly 200 women painstakingly collect plastic nurdles washed ashore from the X-Press Pearl disaster. Image by Saroj Pathirana. The move follows ...

On May 20, 2021, the X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Colombo, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka, causing significant environmental damage. As a result of the spill, an ...

The government is going to take steps in this regard in a context where the previous authorities have not yet submitted claims for the civil liability cost of the disaster. Sri Lanka is now poised ...

The accidents involving the MT New Diamond and X-Press Pearl have exposed "delays and inadequacies" in the country’s environmental protection system. Ocean waters are crucial for the fishing sector.

Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri Lanka lacks the capacity to prevent maritime disasters, this according to a recently published report by the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), centred on the ...

Sri Lanka A's chase begin with Yashoda Lanka and Lahiru Udara at the crease, while Shahnawaz Dahani kicks things off with the new ball after his impressive six-wicket haul in the last match.

"Either leaders bridge the emissions gap, or we plunge headlong into climate disaster." Annual greenhouse gas emissions reached an all-time high last year. Either leaders bridge the emissions gap ...

The Small Business Administration recently announced it has exhausted funding for its disaster loan program, raising new concerns about the government's ability to assist survivors of recent ...