Mongabay

Sri Lanka’s blue carbon ecosystems at risk as government seeks way out of economic crisis

Vidattaltivu Nature Reserve in northern Sri Lanka is an important coastal ecosystem that contains all the main blue carbon habitats, from mangroves to seagrass meadows to salt marshes and tidal flats.
Mongabay

Shipping lane change could be sea change for Sri Lanka’s blue whales

Conservationists have welcomed an announcement by MSC, the world’s biggest container shipping line, that its ships will detour around a key feeding and nursing ground for blue whales off Sri Lanka’s ...
WRAL

A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil

World News A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil (CNN) — Two human skeletons lie entangled on the rough earth – the arms of one wrapped around the ...
KRDO

A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil

(CNN) — Two human skeletons lie entangled on the rough earth – the arms of one wrapped around the other’s head, as though protecting them from danger. Simply known as numbers 177 and 178, their ...