Sri Lanka’s dry zone has more than 14,000 small ancient village tanks with many still in good shape, supporting 246,000 hectares (608,000 acres) of paddy cultivation, about 39% of the total ...

Today, under the dual threat of climate change and Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis that has exacerbated food insecurity, the role of the tank cascades has become even more critical. Jayasena ...

A new type of forest ecology has been discovered from the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa in north-central Sri Lanka, centered around the irrigation canals abandoned there more than 700 years ago.

Ancient tools show how humans adapted to rainforests. The objects were found in a cave in Sri Lanka and include the oldest known bow-and-arrow technology outside Africa, dating back to 48,000 ...