Injecting a bacteria into mosquitoes can block them from transmitting the dengue virus and help control the spread of a disease that kills 20,000 annually in more than 100 countries, scientists hav

Steps will be taken to minimise elephant deaths due to train accidents with the assistance of the Railway and Wildlife Departments in the Anuradhapura District.

It is hard to think of more awkward country in which to drill for gas than the craggy, creviced hillsides that rise up from the banks of China’s turbid Yellow River in the northern province of Shan

The Tokyo Cement Group is planning to invest Rs.

Sri Lanka’s national flower (Nil Manel) is under threat of extinction due to hybridizing with a foreign species.

The Central Environmental Authority (CEA), which issues the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on any development project in the country, is unaware that more than 60,000 acres of virgin

Environmentalists accuse the government of encouraging big time businessmen to destroy forests.

The Ceylon Electricity Board has earned the rare privilege of registering with the United Nations Carbon Development Mechanism (CDM) Programme following construction of the Broadland Power Project.

Mannar and the adjoining coastal areas were identified as the most suitable for setting up a wind energy park, the Power and Energy Ministry said.