The Ceylon Electricity Board had cut down carbon emissions by 1.15 million tons during 2010, thereby saving Rs. 2.600 billion, according to international carbon rating standards.

Currently, a ton of carbon is valued at between Euro 15 and 20, according Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka.

The high living standards of the population in the west have been maintained by drawing from the ecological resources of the developing countries and this fact of environmental debt has been largely unrecognized or has not been researched up to now.

The externalities or costs to the environment are not fully paid for goods consumed in the west, which cause environmental or ecological damage in

Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry urges people to take precautions against the spread of diseases such as dengue and leptospirosis (rat fever) due to heavy rains.

Ministry spokesman W. M. D.

The World Bank yesterday signed an agreement with the government of Sri Lanka to provide US$ 100 million in additional financing for the Road Sector Assistance Project. The additional financing is to enable the government to continue creating an efficient national road system and reduce transportation costs to maximize opportunities and growth.

Amidst increasing incidents of poaching by Indian and Sri Lankan fisherman in each other

The Sacred City of Kandy is likely to lose its World Heritage City status due to its air pollution levels that are higher than the national and World Health Organisation standards, claims an authority in the transport sector.

Head of the Engineering Faculty at the Moratuwa University Professor Amal Kumarage, who also heads the Department of Transport and Logistic Management, says the United Nat

A top regional scientist says Sri Lanka should avoid excessive importation of cars as Colombo was facing detrimental health and environmental conditions.

New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment Research and Advocacy Director Anumita Roychowdhury says South Asian cities have the chance to grow differently and avert the increasing air pollution crisis that produce dangerous chemicals b

Finance Ministry General Secretary Don S.

Central Environmental Authority chairman Charitha Herath said that CEA had approved the EIA for Uma Oya multipurpose development project on April 12.

Governments around the world will decide, at the on-going Fifth Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, whether to continue allowing the recycling of materials containing dangerous chemicals, Executive Director of the Centre for Environmental Justice Hemantha Withanage said.

The Stockholm Convention