Sri Lankan Special Task Force soldiers work at a plantation in their model farm at Katukurunda. Increasing salinity is slowly swallowing tradi…
A Special Task Force soldier shows a pumpkin grown at the model farm at Katukurunda
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization said in a 2024 report that saltwater from seas and oceans affects 10.7 percent of the earth's land, m…
Soldiers are reshaping flood-prone land by digging ponds where rice can be grown or fish raised, with more saline-tolerant coconut trees planted
A commando in an elite Sri Lankan police unit, Sameera Dilshan has an unusual mission -- to reclaim farms poisoned by salt, a long-standing pr…
Machine learning is helping scientists track down hidden oil spills and pollution
Vast swathes of ocean – an area ten times the size of Britain – are affected by light pollution, according to Smyth's research
Scientists say many creatures living beneath the ocean's surface are gone before we realise they exist
The ocean covers most of the Earth's surface but is far less explored and understood than most above-water parts of our planet
The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas.