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Sri Lanka suffered one of its worst environmental disasters when the MV X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Colombo.
In the previous part1, we looked at two global shocks which have hit Sri Lanka’s march toward recovery, namely, the new tariff reforms introduced by the US administration and the Mid-East crisis which ...
A tree branch, brought down by the windy conditions, then fell on his head, causing his death. The body of the deceased has ...
Hidden away in Sri Lanka’s misty hill country, in Uva Province lies Demodera Estate, which is one of the island’s oldest and ...
The Committee on Public Finance approved the Regulations under the Tea (Tax and control of export) Act, No. 16 of 1959. This ...
When we talk about new forestry programmes such as the recently launched Wanaspathi, we think of planting trees only in isolated locations in rural areas. However, reservations along streams and roads ...
When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...
In a rare and fascinating natural occurrence, a coconut tree in Sri Lanka has sprouted ten separate plants from a single coconut fruit. This unusual phenomenon was discovered on a farm in the Meewella ...
The community of Langton Herring in Dorset raised £650,000 to buy The Elm Tree Inn with the help of a Gen Z-slang video that ...
Travels in a Paradoxical Island," Razeen Sally skillfully blends the narrative styles of George Orwell and Bill Aitken.