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Sri Lanka has witnessed two worst marine disasters within nine months since 2020 September
The cleaning program was initiated at Crow Island beach in Mattakkuliya.
It's worst fire area residents have suffered
“This is an extremely unfortunate occurrence, but not something that happens often, or can be predicted."
In order to assess the potential threat from the trees, the help of the Forest Ministry and tree surgeons are needed.
MEPA to get 5.7 mn rupees a year, for five years to maintain 8 beach cleaner machines
Sri Lanka will file legal action against the owners of the New Diamond supertanker that caught fire in the island’s ma...
The Sri Lanka Navy is declaring that the fire onboard the Supertanker MT New Diamond is completely doused and no flames ...
An Indian Coastguard Dornier Aircraft was deployed yesterday Sept 8 to drop diesel dispersant on a patch of diesel disco...
The Sri Lanka Navy is reporting that the fire that re-ignited on board the Supertanker MT New Diamond last evening is un...
Two teams of scientists and experts from the Sri Lankan Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) are currently dep...
Fresh flames have risen in the funnel section of the MT New Diamond Supertanker and firefighters are battling the fire u...
A team of six experts is now at the location of the burning Supertanker MT New Diamond and are expected to conduct an as...
Sri Lanka is in the process of estimating the financial and environmental cost of the crisis created by the fire on boar...
The New Diamond Supertanker is being held in a static position some 40km East of Sri Lanka as firefighting boats continu...
Sri Lanka’s Navy is saying there is no danger of an oil spill in Sri Lankan waters from the stricken Supertanker MT Ne...
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A team of experts are on their way to Sri Lanka to deal with the burning Supertanker carrying millions of tons of crude ...
The stricken supertanker MT New Diamond is being towed away from Sri Lankan waters as the fire onboard continues to burn...
The fire aboard the crude oil carrier MT New Diamond which is 38 kilometers off the eastern coast of the island has brok...
Sri Lanka’s Navy is trying to locate a missing crew-member from the crude oil carrier MT New Diamond which caught fire...
Two Sri Lankan victims have been identified in an explosion at a restaurant in Abu Dhabi on Monday (August 31), Sri Lank...
Sri Lanka does not have the technical capacity to deal with a massive oil spill if a stricken oil tanker burning off the...
An oil tanker carrying more than 200,000 of crude oil is on fire 38 kilometers off Sri Lanka’s East coast and about ha...
The businessman and seven others who allegedly were involved in the distribution of cash gifts prior to Ramadan where th...
Politician Arumugam Thondaman has passed away at the age of 55, one of his party colleagues confirmed.
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