Research shows that frogs in the region are increasingly under threat due to habitat destruction

A loan agreement was signed by the Government of Sri Lanka with the French Development Agency (FDA) recently to obtain a loan of US$ 70 million (approximately Rs.

Oct 09, Colombo: The Australian High Commission in Colombo recently handed over 44 newly built toilets to beneficiaries in resettled villages in Manthai West, Mannar.

Chief Minister of Northwestern Province Dayasiri Jayasekera said that 216 schools in his province were without water.

Of the 60,000 Sri Lankans that die from Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) annually, around 15,000 die of cancer.

Oct 06, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is planning to set up country's first ever Special Agricultural Zones (SAZs) next year.

Finance and Planning Ministry Secretary Dr. P.B.

Samples of decorative paint with excessive lead content would be sent to Italy for testing shortly, Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) Executive Director Hemantha Withanage said

The Sri Lanka Climate Resilience Program to reduce the vulnerability of exposing people to climate risk and to improve the government's capacity to response effectively to hydro meteorological disa

Daily rainfall totals are analyzed for the main agro-climatic zones of Sri Lanka for the period 1976–2006. The emphasis is on daily rainfall rather than on longer-period totals, in particular the number of daily falls exceeding given threshold totals. For one station (Mapalana), where a complete daily series is available from 1950, a longer-term perspective on changes over half a century is provided.

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