Category Feature

Environment, Feature

Holding Polluters Accountable: Inside Sri Lanka’s Massive Environmental Law Overhaul

On 24 June 2026, Parliament passed the National Environmental (Amendment) Bill, the most significant reform to the country’s environmental legislation in decades, taking a major step towards modernising Sri Lanka’s environmental governance. The amendments to the National Environmental Act No.…

CFC Sri Lanka
June 27, 2026

Feature, Indian Monsoon

Arunachal Pradesh Floods Explained: How Climate Change Is Raising the Risk of Flash Floods

In the eastern Himalayas, a single violent night of rain can now redraw a district’s map. That is close to what residents of Deomali, in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district, have been living through this month, after flash floods tore through…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 25, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

A Temporary Shield: Why Experts Say Sri Lanka’s New Crop Insurance Expansion Isn’t Enough

Sri Lanka’s farmers have always planted against the weather. What has changed is that the weather no longer keeps to the calendar. Rains that once arrived on cue now fail, or fall all at once. Droughts stretch longer than the…

CFC Sri Lanka
June 23, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

The Monsoon Surge: How Climate Change Is Fueling Sri Lanka’s 2026 Dengue Crisis

Dengue fever, once a seasonal disease confined to the monsoon months, is increasingly becoming a year-round public health threat across South Asia. Health officials have warned that changing weather patterns are creating ideal breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes, driving up…

CFC Sri Lanka
June 19, 2026

Feature, Global Warming

Human-Caused Warming Hits 1.37°C, Bringing 1.5°C Threshold Closer

A major climate assessment published this month has found that human-caused warming reached 1.37°C in 2025, bringing the world to its closest point yet to the 1.5°C warming threshold outlined in the Paris Agreement. Published in Earth System Science Data,…

Vivek Saini
June 16, 2026

Biodiversity, Feature

Monks, Medicine, and Biodiversity: Inside the Battle to Protect Ritigala Mountain

On World Environment Day 2026, Sri Lanka quietly made one of its most important conservation decisions in recent years. While global attention often focuses on disappearing rainforests and endangered wildlife elsewhere, the country took a significant step toward safeguarding its…

CFC Sri Lanka
June 9, 2026

Environment, Feature

The Flood Paradox: Why Pune Can’t Afford to Cut 1,500 Botanical Garden Trees

The proposal reads like a small administrative item: a road, a public notice, a window for objections closing on 9 June. What it would actually do is remove close to 1,500 mature trees from the campus of the Botanical Survey…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 8, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

The Hottest World Cup: How a Warming Planet Is Rewriting the 2026 Tournament

When the United States last hosted football’s biggest tournament in 1994, summer heat was an occasional nuisance. Three decades later, the planet that the 2026 World Cup will be played on is measurably different, and the difference is now showing…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 6, 2026

Environment, Feature

World Environment Day 2026: What If Nature Wrote Our Climate Action Plan?

Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future. Every year, governments, businesses, scientists, and communities come together to discuss climate action. New policies are drafted, international negotiations are held, sustainability targets are announced, and innovative technologies are developed to address…

Aayushi Gour
June 5, 2026

Feature, Indian Monsoon

90% of Normal: Why the 2026 Monsoon Arrival Has India’s Farmers on Edge

For the tens of millions of Indian farmers who plant their summer crops by the rhythm of the rains, the southwest monsoon’s arrival over Kerala is less a spectacle than a starting gun. This year, that gun has fired roughly…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 4, 2026