Mental disorders, often referred to as psychiatric disorders or mental illnesses, are characterized by disturbances in cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior. Factors such as genetics, ...

Above all things, Sri Lanka is known for its tea. Introduced in the nineteenth century, Ceylon tea today is a multi-billion-dollar industry that brings in wealth and tourism. The country has plans to ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve all become accustomed, after all, to the grim news these reports periodically ...

Agriculture and Plantation Industries Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has directed the Seed and Planting Material Development Centre within the Agriculture Department to annually produce 20 million ...

The ' Moon Memorial Museum', will be opened within the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, on Sunday, September 28, aimed at preserving threatened plant species and plant parts, while spreading ...

COLOMBO, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Coconut Cultivation Board has set a target of planting 2.5 million coconut plants in 2025, said an official on Sunday. Chairman of the Coconut Cultivation Board ...

COLOMBO — Every dozen years or so, Sri Lanka’s mist-shrouded highlands burst into color. Violet, pink and white carpets of tiny blooms spread across the grasslands of the Horton Plains and other hill ...

In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List pronounced the towering Doona ovalifolia tree “extinct in the wild.” Known locally as pini-beraliya, the species lingered only as a single cultivated specimen in ...

IFFCO seeks joint venture partners in Sri Lanka and Senegal to establish fertilizer plants and secure raw material supplies ...