Update, 14 November 2017 Disaster Management Center (DMC) of Sri Lanka have reported one fatality in the flooding in Jaffna District, Northern Province. The numbers of those affected and displaced…
COLOMBO, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – During Sri Lanka’s May floods, rescue crews in Kiriella, a small town in Rathnapura District, spotted a remarkable sight. A middle-aged woman, trudging…
ROME, June 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A severe drought followed by floods has slashed agricultural production in Sri Lanka, leaving some 900,000 people facing food insecurity, the United Nations…
NASA has released photos revealing the extent of flood water in parts of Sri Lanka in May 2017. Southern parts of the country were inundated after torrential rain between 24…
Colombo, 02 June 2017 – The European Commission is allocating €300,000 (approximately LKR 51 million) in humanitarian funding to Sri Lanka to bring emergency assistance to communities affected by the…
Efforts to improve warnings are yielding results – but alerts are still coming too late, experts say. By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Last Friday, mobile…
Outbreaks of diseases such as dengue fever and cholera, and illnesses like diarrhea and dysentery, are often a threat in the aftermath of floods due to water-logging, writes Nita Bhalla…
Update 3 – 28 May 2017 According to the latest figures from Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC), flooding and landslides have left: 442,299 people affected (114,124 families) 146 dead…
Storms associated with the advancing monsoon in the Northern Indian Ocean’s Bay of Bengal were analyzed by NASA with the GPM or Global Precipitation Measurement mission core satellite. The GPM…
Study recommends governments support existing community-based mangrove management programmes, which allow locals to sustainably fish and harvest timber in forests, writes Matthew Ponsford for Thomson Reuters Foundation. LONDON, Feb 2…
NEW YORK, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – People forced to leave their homes because of climate change in South Asia should get the same protections given to political refugees,…
Of the 1.35 million people killed by natural hazards from 1996 to 2015, 90 percent died in low and middle-income countries, reports Megan Rowling for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. BARCELONA,…
The recent magnitude 7.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami warning in northern New Zealand reminds us that tsunamis are unpredictable and can strike any time. If you live in a tsunami…
After the harrowing impact of tsunamis on coastal areas around the Indian Ocean in December 2004 that killed up to 230,000 people, and on the Japanese coast in March 2011…
Right now, there is no uniform system to calculate losses, which is hampering disaster planning measures, reports Amantha Perera for Thomson Reuters Foundation. ARANAYAKE, Sri Lanka, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters…
[COLOMBO] A year after Sri Lanka launched a mangrove conservation plan with funds from a U.S. conservation group about half of its 37,000 hectares of mangrove forests are in a…
