Photo courtesy of Jayantha Wijesingha Sri Lanka has seen various large scale environmental disasters over its history from British colonial rulers scraping out the the…
Photo courtesy of Gizmodo Australia Today is World Oceans Day The incident The container ship, X-Press Pearl, was registered in Singapore and operated by one…
Photo courtesy of New York Post “There will be huge amounts of compensation for the damage caused by the X-Press Pearl vessel in the Sri…
Photo courtesy of The Independent Sri Lanka is currently experiencing the greatest marine disaster in its history caused by the burning and sinking of the…
Photo courtesy of EcoWatch After 12 days, the ship MV X-Press Pearl finally sank about 9.5 nautical miles from the Colombo harbour. It has not…
Image courtesy LMD There have been no deaths due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sri Lanka. The number of confirmed cases per day went down the…
Image from Flickr “Try again; fail again. Fail better. “- Samuel Beckett Last year at Easter, sudden acts of violence spread immense fear, injury and…
Image courtesy The Economist Shashika Bandara is an Associate in Research at the Duke Global Health Institute. He tweets at @shashikaLB. As unprecedented events unfold…