Category Feature

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Heat, Floods and Failing Yields: How Climate Change Is Reshaping Sri Lanka’s Dairy Industry

Climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern for Sri Lanka’s dairy farmers — it is a daily reality unfolding in cowsheds, pastures and milk collection routes across the country. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts and increasingly destructive floods are…

CFC Sri Lanka
January 20, 2026

Air Pollution, Feature

How a Small Town in Assam-Meghalaya Border Became India’s Most Polluted City

For years, India’s air pollution story has been told through the image of Delhi choking each winter under a blanket of grey smog, prompting emergency bans, school closures and global headlines. But the country’s most dangerous air no longer hangs…

Aayushi Gour
January 20, 2026

Biodiversity, Feature

How Agriculture Is Eating Into the World’s Biodiversity Hotspots

Biodiversity hotspots are often spoken about with a sense of urgency, but also with a sense of distance. They are described as faraway forests, islands, or mountain ranges where rare species cling to survival. In reality, many of these places…

Vivek Saini
January 14, 2026

Climate Change, Feature

Is Green Arabia Possible Again? Inside Saudi Arabia’s Desert Greening Plan

Saudi Arabia has long been known for its vast sand seas, but officials now envision a very different future.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Green Initiative (SGI) promises to plant 10 billion trees and rehabilitate tens of millions of hectares…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
January 13, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Explained: What Is the Triple Planetary Crisis and Why the World Can’t Tackle It in Pieces

From melting ice caps to microbead-laced fish on your plate, the triple planetary crisis isn’t science fiction; it’s the OECD’s grim forecast for 2050 if we keep sleepwalking. This interconnected onslaught of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution poses a…

Aayushi Gour
December 31, 2025
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Climate Change Impact, Feature

Triple Planetary Crisis (Part 3): Pollution: The Silent Killer

The triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution—unfolds not as three separate emergencies but as a single, reinforcing system of risk. In earlier parts of this series, we examined how climate change destabilises natural and human systems, and…

Aayushi Gour
December 29, 2025

Emissions, Feature

Cement, Cities and Climate Change: A Carbon Cycle in Plain Sight

Concrete is often treated as the climate villain holding up the modern world. Every new flyover, housing block, metro tunnel, and dam carries a carbon cost that begins in a kiln, where limestone is heated until it releases carbon dioxide…

Vivek Saini
December 27, 2025

Conservation, Feature

When Storms Hit, Forests Matter: Award-Winning Cloud Forest Project Shows Sri Lanka’s Path to Water Resilience

While Cyclone Ditwah exposed Sri Lanka’s vulnerability to water-related disasters, a parallel story of climate resilience and water leadership emerged in Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, on 10th December. At the UAE Embassy’s Water Awards Ceremony, Sri Lankan researchers, journalists, educators,…

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Triple Planetary Crisis Part 2: Biodiversity Loss – One Million Species on the Brink

The triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution form a tightly woven web of environmental risk that is reshaping the future of the planet. As highlighted in a recent study, these crises do not unfold in isolation. Instead,…

Aayushi Gour
December 26, 2025

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Triple Planetary Crisis Part 1: Climate Change Ignites Global Chaos

We’re not facing one apocalypse, but three in lockstep: climate change superheating the planet, biodiversity collapsing like dominoes, and pollution poisoning every breath as the OECD‘s stark Environmental Outlook warns. These three crises interlock: climate superheats everything, biodiversity erodes buffers,…

Aayushi Gour
December 24, 2025