Hambantota International Port (HIP) is redefining what industrial infrastructure can achieve, not just as a logistics hub, ...

Fairoz, a marine scientist and senior lecturer at the Faculty of Fisheries and Ocean Science at OUSL, who led the study, said the reef is protected from many of the stressors in natural coastal areas, ...

Mother Nature has proved her resilience after an assessment of damage to wildlife and nature by the Asian tsunami had found little lasting damage.

Bleaching is one of the worst destructive natural phenomena faced by corals worldwide. It occurs when coral polyps, the organisms that build corals, shed the algae zooxanthellae that give them their ...

COLOMBO, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's state owned marine environment protection authority on Wednesday warned that the country only had 10 percent of live coral reefs in its oceans as 90 percent had ...

That means this region “has the highest live coral cover among the regions of Sri Lanka,” the study says. And while corals in southern and northwestern Sri Lanka have suffered from severe bleaching ...

The Kayankerni Reef designated a Marine Sanctuary in 2019, plays a vital role in supporting Sri Lanka’s fisheries and tourism industries while also acting as a natural coastal defence system. However, ...

Joseph Fernando travelled to Sri Lanka to collect data after the tsunami of December 2004. He describes the movement of the wave and how it broke on the beach and flooded the land. In some places ...

Colombo, July 3 Sri Lanka's state-owned Marine Environment Protection Authority on Wednesday warned that the country only had 10 per cent of live coral reefs in its oceans as 90 per cent had died due ...