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Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time

BBC – ceylontoday.lk Our overheating world is likely to break a key temperature limit for the first time over the next few years, scientists predict. Researchers say there’s now a...

The Supreme Court suspends the elephant trench projects in wildlife parks.

counterpoint.lk The Supreme Court today issued an interim order suspending the operation of elephant trench projects and the digging of elephant trenches in wildlife national parks.This interim order will be...

Chamodi Peiris
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10 February 2023

Freezing weather adds to despair as quake toll passes 20,000

bbc.com BBC reported that more than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, though the UN warns the disaster’s full extent...

Shaken like a cradle’: Earthquake kills 640 in Turkey, Syria; hunt on for survivors

India Today Web Desk The death toll surpassed 600 after an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck close to the Syrian border on Monday, levelling buildings in Turkey...

NEWSFAO: 6.2 mn Lankans facing acute food insecurity

island.lk A record 6.2 million Sri Lankans are facing moderate acute food insecurity, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday in its response overview from June to December...

Adverse weather leaves three dead and 19 others injured

island.lk The Disaster Management Centre (DMC), on Monday, announced that three persons had died and 21,644 others were facing health issues due to adverse weather conditions, caused by Cyclone Mandous....

Eight institutions under Agriculture Ministry to be merged

Buddhika Imbulana – dailynews.lk Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has decided to merge eight institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture into four institutions next year. Minister Amaraweera says that this step...

World population to reach 8 Bn tomorrow (15), says UN Report

island.lk The report says more than half the projected increase in population up to 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries.The United Nations has estimated that the world’s population...

National average rice yield hits nearly 50-year-low in Maha season amid fertiliser ban

dailymirror.lk Sri Lanka’s national average rice yield hit a nearly 50-year-low last ‘Maha’ season largely driven by the ill-conceived import ban on chemical fertiliser and agrochemicals. Its aftereffects combined with...

Dragonfly thought to be extinct found again

By Ifham Nizam – divaina.lk Scientists have rediscovered Sri Lankan Clubtail (Anisogomphus ceylonicus), one of the rarest species of dragonflies in the country. The team that made the discovery comprised Amila Sumanapala...