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It no longer arrives as a distant warning. Climate change is here, it is relentless, and it is unforgiving. Across South Asia, from the flooded plains of Bangladesh to the heat-scorched regions of Ind

Thursday Oct 01, 2026 Tuesday, 1 September 2026 04:05 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} Agriculture in Sri Lanka, and in many other countries, is sitting on a ticking time bomb. The burning signs are no lo

Thursday Jul 09, 2026 Friday, 5 June 2026 02:25 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} Extreme conditions may impact global temperature “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist Nathanie

We Sri Lankans have become notorious for closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. The past few decades provide ample evidence of our failure to act despite having warnings in advance. The 2

Reply To: Name - Reply Comment Sri Lankans are used to talking about floods and heavy rains. When rivers overflow or roads go underwater, the danger is clear and immediate. But there is another threat

Reply To: Name - Reply Comment Sri Lankans are used to talking about floods and heavy rains. When rivers overflow or roads go underwater, the danger is clear and immediate. But there is another threat

This imbalance is now being worsened by climate change Sri Lanka is once again caught between two extremes. In one part of the year, families queue for water bowsers, farmers watch their crops fail, a

Reply To: Name - Reply Comment Economic empowerment of women Images courtesy of AFD France and Sri Lanka have been working together for more than 75 years, since the establishment of diplomatic relati

Tuesday Sep 22, 2026 Saturday, 22 August 2026 00:28 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} By Tania de Silva The real test of a disaster warning is not whether it is issued. It is whether somebody, somewhere, h

At least six persons were killed and three others injured as heavy rain, landslides and flash floods battered parts of Sri Lanka over the past two days, officials said on Tuesday (August 4, 2026). The

Sunday Aug 09, 2026 Tuesday, 4 August 2026 03:25 - - 39 The prevailing rainy conditions are expected to ease from today, but several hill country and Sabaragamuwa areas will continue to face rainfall

Sunday Sep 06, 2026 Saturday, 15 August 2026 00:00 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} On International Youth Day 2026, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with the National Youth Serv

Reply To: Name - Reply Comment If there is one lesson Sri Lanka should have learnt from the catastrophic economic collapse of recent years, it is that shallow development gains are easily erased by su

Sunday Oct 11, 2026 Tuesday, 22 September 2026 06:12 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} Sri Lanka’s National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has reported around 35 minor land instability incidents ove

Friday May 15, 2026 Friday, 15 May 2026 06:56 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} The Meteorology Department issued a red warning for heavy rainfall, forecasting extremely heavy showers exceeding 150 mm in s

Galilee BESS (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of WKV Hydro Technics (Pvt) Ltd and wholly owned by Khen Energy Ltd, has successfully completed the commissioning process mandated by the National System Operator

Thursday Oct 01, 2026 Monday, 31 August 2026 00:24 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} For a farmer, climate change rarely arrives as a graph. It arrives as a field that should have been moist but is turning

Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah has proposed establishing a Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism led by his country as well as India and China, in the wake of the recent devastating flash floods

India's women cricketers refuse cup from Pakistan minister Published September 14, 2026last updated September 14, 2026 What you need to know This blog is now closed. Here is a roundup of some of the t

Monday Sep 14, 2026 Wednesday, 19 August 2026 05:04 - - 95 By Safna Malik The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Sri Lanka have launched the Sri Lanka Upper Watershed Ecological Restor

Reply To: Name - Reply Comment Research conducted by the Conflict and Environment Observatory estimates that militaries account for around 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental co

People hold symbolic funeral ceremonies meant to “liberate the souls” of those who died in the flood disaster (photo by Prakash Mathema). Kunda Dixit, former editor and Publisher of Nepali Times and a

Tuesday Aug 04, 2026 Wednesday, 29 July 2026 00:05 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} President Masato Kanda delivered a keynote speech at the International Symposium Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of J

As Iran crisis drags on, fears of global food crisis grow While global food prices have risen modestly so far, the full impact of the conflict has yet to be felt, analysts say. In the nearly two month

Rescuers search for hundreds still missing in Nepal-Tibet disaster area as death toll climbs Rescuers in Tibet reached the main area wiped out by a devastating mudslide this week, Chinese state media

Saturday Oct 03, 2026 Friday, 4 September 2026 00:50 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} Businesses are likely to experience the effects of El Niño through several interconnected channels Economic consequenc

Saturday Oct 10, 2026 Monday, 21 September 2026 03:35 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} Heavy rainfall exceeding 100 mm, thundershowers and strong winds are expected in several parts of the country until t

Is the Great Nicobar Island India’s Hormuz-like chokepoint against China? Far away from the mainland, the Indian government is pumping billions of dollars into a controversial development project that

Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety Friday as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 pe

Thursday Jun 04, 2026 Wednesday, 27 May 2026 00:22 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} President Anura Kumara Dissanayake with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva during the la

Sri Lanka US submarine sinks Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean The IRIS Dena sank off the coast of Sri Lanka with the country's navy recovering 87 bodies and rescuing 32 people. 04/03/2026 Grand Voy

As global weather patterns grow increasingly chaotic under the influence of shifting oceanic temperatures and intensifying El Niño phenomena, Sri Lanka, like many other countries, is at a perilous agr

Nepali Army personnel hold and comfort twin babies amid a search operation in the aftermath of the devastating flash floods at Trishuli camp, Nepal, on August 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI Nepal and C

Nepal-Tibet flood deaths pass 500, thousands still missing Published August 28, 2026last updated August 28, 2026 Rescue workers have resumed a search for hundreds of people still missing two days afte

Nepal-Tibet flood deaths pass 500, thousands still missing Published August 28, 2026last updated August 28, 2026 Rescue workers have resumed a search for hundreds of people still missing two days afte

Nepal-Tibet flood deaths pass 500, thousands still missing Published August 28, 2026last updated August 28, 2026 Rescue workers have resumed a search for hundreds of people still missing two days afte

Nepal-Tibet flood deaths pass 500, thousands still missing Published August 28, 2026last updated August 28, 2026 Rescue workers have resumed a search for hundreds of people still missing two days afte

Tuesday Apr 28, 2026 Monday, 27 April 2026 00:23 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} Sri Lanka has been a serial victim of a brutal cocktail of natural and man-made macro disasters in recent times. These twi

Fifteen guilty in 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings: What the verdict says The suicide bombings were the deadliest attacks in the country since the end of its civil war in 2009. Fifteen of the 24 people

Reply To: Name - Reply Comment Sri Lanka must also reflect on whether it is pursuing a defensive or offensive posture in politics and diplomacy Sri Lanka stands today not merely as a nation recovering

Sri Lanka is uniquely positioned to contribute to this global effort. Despite its relatively small land area, Sri Lanka possesses remarkable climatic and ecological diversity. The country contains mor

Global water report reveals drying rivers and erratic swings between too little and too much Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Senior Editor Rivers across the globe in 2025 had one of the dri

We’re not even halfway through 2026, and global conflicts are already surging. Last year marked a grim turning point with nearly 60 active conflicts worldwide, war-related deaths at a 30-year high and