Category Feature

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

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Climate Change Is Fueling New Malaria Risks in Vulnerable Regions

For years, global health agencies believed malaria was on a slow, uneven retreat. Deaths were falling, prevention tools were improving, and decades of research had begun to pay off. But climate change is quietly reshaping that story. Rising temperatures, heavier…

Vivek Saini
February 2, 2026

Biodiversity, Feature

Sri Lanka Moves to Align National Policies as BBNJ Treaty Enters into Force

As the historic BBNJ Treaty officially entered into force in January 2026, Sri Lanka has moved into a critical new phase: aligning its national policies and legal framework with the requirements of the global agreement. Government officials confirm that the…

CFC Sri Lanka
January 28, 2026

Climate Goals, Feature

Air Pollution as a Deterrent to Foreign Investment in India: Lessons from China’s Success

India’s rapid economic ascent has positioned it as a global powerhouse, yet a persistent environmental crisis threatens to undermine this progress. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos 2026, Harvard economist and former IMF official Gita Gopinath delivered a…

Manjori Borkotoky
January 28, 2026

Climate Change, Feature

From Climate Exit to Fossil Expansion: Inside Trump’s Escalating Climate Rollback

If headlines could melt ice caps, the planet might be safer. But as 2026 unfolds, the United States under President Donald J. Trump is doing the opposite- withdrawing, dismantling, and doubling down on fossil fuels even as climate impacts intensify…

Manjori Borkotoky
January 27, 2026

Environment, Feature

Degraded Land, Deadly Storm: How Soil Erosion Worsened Cyclone Ditwah’s Impact

In late November 2025, Cyclone Ditwah dumped extraordinary rainfall on Sri Lanka, unleashing record floods and landslides. What meteorologists called a weak tropical storm turned into the nation’s deadliest natural disaster of the century: by early December more than 600…

Rashmitha Diwyanjalee
January 23, 2026