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Climate Change Impact, Feature

When the Flowers Arrive Too Soon, or Too Late: Climate Change and the Unravelling of the Tropics’ Natural Timing

High above the forest floor, where sunlight filters through layers of leaves, a tree opens its flowers to the air. It is a delicate moment, the beginning of fruit, food, and new life. For generations, these events unfolded with quiet…

Vivek Saini
March 5, 2026

Environment, Feature

A Stadium on Fragile Ground: Inside the Environmental Fight Over Mandativu Island

On the windswept island of Mandativu, off Sri Lanka’s northern coast, a grand vision of cricketing glory has run into an unexpected barrier: environmental law. What was meant to rise as an international-grade stadium and sprawling sports complex on 48…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
March 5, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Sri Lanka’s Cashew Crisis: Climate Extremes Push Farmers to Abandon a Once-Thriving Crop

Sri Lanka’s tropical agriculture—vital for millions of rural farmers—is now buckling under erratic weather. Record heatwaves, unexpected floods, and crushing droughts have become the new normal recently. In the island’s dry-zone farming districts, once-reliable crops like cashew are suffering badly.…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
February 27, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Unravelling the Golden Thread: How Climate Change Is Threatening Assam’s Muga Silk Heritage

In the villages along Assam’s Brahmaputra floodplains, the silence inside Muga silkworm farms has begun to mean something different. Where farmers once expected the steady rustle of silkworms feeding on Som leaves, many now wake to trays of lifeless larvae…casualties…

Manjori Borkotoky
February 27, 2026

Climate Goals, Feature

After Scotland’s Ban, Should India Rethink Plastic Wet Wipes?

In a major environmental policy shift, the Scottish Government has announced that the sale and supply of wet wipes containing plastic will be banned across Scotland under new regulations aimed at cutting pollution and protecting waterways. Scotland’s decision, part of…

Aayushi Gour
February 21, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Living on Borrowed Water: How Climate Change Is Quietly Reshaping Central Asia’s Amu Darya Basin

For decades, Central Asia has relied on vast irrigation networks to sustain its farms and feed its population. Rivers descending from mountain glaciers have powered cotton fields, wheat farms, and rural economies across Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and beyond. But new…

Vivek Saini
February 18, 2026

Climate Goals, Feature

What Sri Lanka’s 2024 EPI Score Really Reveals

Sri Lanka has been struggling with the economic crisis for around a few years, and local media and environmentalists have lost their attention about some major global environmental indexes and the position of Sri Lanka in those. In this article,…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
February 17, 2026

Feature, Renewable Energy

Is Sri Lanka’s Solar Curtailment Undermining Renewable Energy Growth?

Sri Lanka has seen a rapid rise in solar power in recent years. By 2024, solar PV accounted for about 14% of the country’s electricity generation, up from negligible levels a decade ago. Rooftop solar installations have surged—rising from roughly…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
February 12, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

85 Seconds to Midnight: Why the 2026 Doomsday Clock Cites Climate as Humanity’s Silent Killer

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on January 27, 2026, that the Doomsday Clock has been set to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest its hands have ever come to symbolic apocalypse. The Clock—created in 1947 by Einstein, Oppenheimer,…

CFC Sri Lanka
February 9, 2026

Climate Change, Feature

Making Polluters Pay: Inside the UN’s Push to Fund Climate Loss and Damage Through Global Taxes

The United Nations is considering a groundbreaking proposal that could fundamentally change how the world pays for climate damage. Under a draft framework being negotiated at the UN, fossil fuel companies and the world’s wealthiest individuals could be taxed to…

Aayushi Gour
February 7, 2026

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