Category Feature

Biodiversity, Feature

Sri Lanka’s Invasive Species Crisis: A Growing Threat to Forests and Freshwater Ecosystems

Sri Lanka’s famous biodiversity is in danger. Forests like the Kanneliya rainforest, a once-rich haven for endemic frogs such as the whistling shrub frog (Pseudophilautus nemus), are now choked by fast-growing invasive plants. Hard milkwood (Alstonia macrophylla), introduced in the…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
April 2, 2026

Air Pollution, Feature

India Ranks Sixth in Global Pollution Index: Why Clean Air Still Remains Out of Reach

For millions across India, clean air remains a distant reality as the country continues to rank among the world’s most polluted, with the 2025 World Air Quality Report placing it sixth globally. The report underscores both the scale of the…

Aayushi Gour
April 2, 2026

Environment, Feature

Elephants vs. Solar Power: How Hambantota’s Green Push Is Fueling Illegal Deforestation and Conflict

Sri Lanka’s push for clean energy is now at the centre of an unfolding environmental crisis. In Hambantota, more than 1,000 acres of protected forest inside the Elephant Management Reserve have reportedly been cleared, burned and stripped, to make space…

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Evolution vs Warming: What a Five-Year Plant Experiment Tells Us

Climate change is reshaping every corner of the natural world, but, can evolution keep pace with warming? That’s the central question behind a unique, globally coordinated experiment that tracked how thousands of plants genetically adapted or failed to adapt to…

Manjori Borkotoky
March 27, 2026

Feature, GreenHouse Gas Emissions

War’s Environmental Damage: How Conflicts Accelerate Global Warming

Smoke rising from bombed cities signals human tragedy, but it also signals something less visible and equally dangerous- a surge of greenhouse gases warming the planet. Across Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and the Middle East, war is not only destroying homes…

Manjori Borkotoky
March 24, 2026

Climate Action, Feature

Why a Growing Global Majority Is Prioritising Climate Action Over Economic Growth

You don’t have to look far to see how priorities are changing. In many places, people are already making quiet trade-offs, supporting cleaner energy even when it costs more, backing restrictions on pollution, or choosing long-term environmental safety over short-term…

Vivek Saini
March 24, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Warmer Winters, Rising Heat: The New Climate Reality in Indian Cities

On mornings that should have felt like crisp winter, the air in many Indian cities felt unfamiliar…heavier, warmer, almost out of season. The subtle chill that once defined December and January seemed shorter-lived, less reliable. Across regions known for their…

Manjori Borkotoky
March 21, 2026

Feature, Oceans

After a Year of Delays, UN Research Vessel Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Returns to Survey Sri Lanka’s Changing Seas

Nearly a year after bureaucratic delays forced its mission to be cancelled, the UN-flagged research vessel Dr. Fridtjof Nansen has finally arrived in Sri Lanka’s waters to begin a crucial marine survey. Operated by Norway’s Institute of Marine Research under…

CFC Sri Lanka
March 12, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

The Disappearing Giants of the Sky: Study Finds Global Bird Communities Shrinking in Size

For generations, the rhythm of birdlife has shaped how people read the land. The sudden flash of wings at dawn, the heavy glide of a large raptor overhead, the unmistakable calls that signal the arrival of a season; these are…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
March 10, 2026

Climate Change, Feature

The Climate Is Heating Faster Than Before, New Analysis of Global Temperatures Shows

The warming of the planet has long been described as steady and relentless. It has been a gradual climb driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. But when scientists recently examined global temperature records more closely, they discovered something more unsettling.…

Manjori Borkotoky
March 9, 2026