Environment

Sri Lanka’s Plunge Into Organic Farming Brings Disaster

by |08 December 202108 December 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The New York Times The economically troubled country banned chemical fertilizers without preparing farmers, prompting a surge in food prices and worries about shortages. RATNAPURA, Sri Lanka — This year’s crop worries M.D. Somadasa. For four decades, he...

All We Need Is the Air That We Breathe

by |07 September 202117 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in GroundViews Today is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies “Tiny, invisible particles of pollution penetrate deep into our lungs, bloodstream and bodies. These pollutants are responsible for about one-third of deaths from stroke, chronic respiratory...

Quantifying COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo

by |06 September 202101 October 2021|Interviews & Articles

Published in the Daily Mirror Among the many tragic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been some positive offshoots as well. One of them is the improvement of Colombo’s air quality as a result of restricted movement to prevent...

Balancing short and long term interests vital for Sri Lanka in 2020 (Commentary)

by |03 January 202003 January 2020|Verité in the News

Taken from - Mongabay By Nalaka Gunawardene Image courtesy - Nalinka Abeysinghe Sri Lanka enters 2020 at a time of political transition. With a new president in office and a parliamentary election due in the next few months, public and...

Disaster Management in Sri Lanka

by |22 July 201902 March 2020|Verité in the News

A report was released very recently titled, Disaster Management in Sri Lanka: A CASE STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE FAILURES. The Economics Research Team of Verité Research compiled this study. The purpose of this piece is to use some of the details...