Hilary Challis spent a year researching the lives of people who died in the disaster after discovering her relative was involved Looking up at the memorial to the disaster which claimed the life of ...

NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka — Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets ...

Graph illustrating the stark increase in global trade (exports and imports) in the late 1800s, with an exponential increase (dashed colored line) becoming particularly marked by circa 1980. Numbers ...

Fishermen in Sri Lanka have welcomed the country’s top court ordering US$1 billion in compensation for marine pollution caused by a Singapore-flagged cargo ship that caught fire and sank off the ...