COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Salvage experts failed to tow a fire-stricken container ship carrying chemicals out to sea and it started to sink Wednesday off Sri Lanka's main port, raising fears of a ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka were trying to head off a potential environmental disaster Thursday as a fire-damaged container ship that had been carrying chemicals was sinking off of the country's main ...

COLOMBO — Cricket is more than a sport in Sri Lanka. It is woven into the country’s postindependence identity, a unifying passion that cuts across class, ethnicity and geography. Yet in recent years, ...

Sri Lanka’s then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe speaks at the G77 and China Leaders’ Summit during the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab ...

This story originally posted on Field & Stream. When the X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire and sank off the coast of Sri Lanka in May 2021, it spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals and fuel ...

For decades, environmental crime in Sri Lanka has been cheap. Polluters paid fines that barely registered on balance sheets, violations dragged through courts and the real costs — poisoned waterways, ...

DAMBULLA, March 15 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka began a wildlife census on Saturday to count monkeys, peacocks and giant squirrels, aiming to manage their populations as farmers complain of agricultural ...

People and elephants are increasingly competing for the same land in Sri Lanka, leading to a rising number of deaths among both populations. Farmers are increasingly "encroaching" on elephant habitats ...

In 2021, the Sri Lankan Army became the unlikely vanguard of a supposed green revolution, resulting in a radical redefinition of civil-military relations in farming regions. Members of the Security ...

Sri Lanka's civil war, which spanned more than a quarter of a century, ended in 2009. With more than 100,000 war casualties and one million refugees, it represented one of Asia's most violent, ...

OSLO, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Norway's international development minister, a mediator between Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels, will become environment minister in a cabinet reshuffle, ...

This year, cargo ships have been in the news for the wrong reasons - global supply shortages, getting stuck in the Suez Canal and now a potential environmental disaster. A giant barge anchored off the ...