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Nonprofit Removes 300,000 Landmines in Sri Lanka, Allows 280K People to Return to Their Homes https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nonprofit-removes-300000-landmines-in-sri-lanka-allows-280k-people-to-return-to-their-homes/

Nonprofit Removes 300,000 Landmines in Sri Lanka, Allows 280K People to Return to Their Homes
Those mines and unexploded bombs were cleared across an area 33% larger than the island of Manhattan

"Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media"
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Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media
In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List pronounced the towering Doona ovalifolia tree “extinct in the wild.” Known locally as pini-beraliya, the species lingered only as a single cultivated specimen in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya. For years, that lone tree stood as a melancholy reminder of what had been lost. The species’ unlikely […]

The Gen Z protests are several protests in countries around the world said to be predominantly led by the eponymous Generation Z during the 2020s. 12 protests have been identified, with 4 toppling their government (Bangladesh, Nepal, Madagascar, Sri Lanka).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_pr

Gen Z protests - Wikipedia

From Chile to Greece, ‘ghost gear’ from fish farms haunts the seas https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-chile-to-greece-ghost-gear-from-fish-farms-haunts-the-seas/
As Sri Lanka struggles with ghost nets, volunteer youth lead se…

From Chile to Greece, ‘ghost gear’ from fish farms haunts the seas
Each year since 2021, Pia Reveco and her husband have set sail from Puerto Montt to spend the Chilean summers navigating Patagonia aboard their sailboat. Last year, they traveled along the fjords and mountains of the Golfo de Penas; three years ago, they reached Laguna San Rafael National Park, where a glacier resembling an ice […]

SiDiaC: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17912 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17912

SiDiaC: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus
SiDiaC, the first comprehensive Sinhala Diachronic Corpus, covers a historical span from the 5th to the 20th century CE. SiDiaC comprises 58k words across 46 literary works, annotated carefully based on the written date, after filtering based on availability, authorship, copyright compliance, and data attribution. Texts from the National Library of Sri Lanka were digitised using Google Document AI OCR, followed by post-processing to correct formatting and modernise the orthography. The construc…

"Sri Lanka breaks ground on 100 MW solar project"
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Sri Lanka breaks ground on 100 MW solar project
Sri Lanka has started building its largest renewable project, a $140 million, 100 MW solar park with 12 MWh of storage. It is expected to annually generate 219 GWh and cut $69.7 million in diesel imports by 2027.