Righting wrongs

New paradigm for sustainable transport in Asia: words or reality?

Most of the nations participating in recently concluded Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum presented ambitious mobility plans for their …

SRI LANKA

In the bog

POISON WATER

Road Design: Why do Indian cities never get it right?

Even cities in developing countries like Sri Lanka have well-designed streets and roads which encourage walking and cycling

THREATENED WETLAND

Colombo gains park, loses wetland

Environmentalists say walking trail through the wetland is blocking water ingress

Sri Lanka destroys ivory shipment worth US$3 Million

Lanka is the first South Asian country to publicly destroy seized ivory

How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle

Indigenous children typically learn from an early age how to open paths through dense vegetation, how to tell edible fruits from non-edible ones

X-Press Pearl disaster: Colombo’s coral reefs, marine wildlife in danger

The X-press Pearl disaster has already caused damage to Sri Lanka’s pristine beaches with millions of plastic pellets and debris. Now, …

Concrete invasion

Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed

Countries voice 1.5°C challenges at 5th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum

Representatives from over 50 countries are participating in the three-day-long conference

South asia

Sri Lanka to prosecute Indian fishers in its custody

Judicial proceedings chosen over quick repatriation because fishers were committing the crime time and again, says Lankan minister

Sri Lankan army opens fire on people protesting against MNC for contaminating their water; three killed

12 villages in Gampha district were demanding closure of Hayleys' subsidiary, Dipped Products

Living on the edge

Coastal South Asia is fragile and vulnerable to climate change impacts. Yet, governments are setting up industries, ports and promoting tourism …