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  2. Climate change in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Visualisation of average annual temperature anomaly in Sri Lanka, 1901 to 2020. Climate change is an important issue in Sri Lanka , and its effects threaten to impact both human and natural systems. Roughly 50 percent of its 22 million citizens live in low-lying coastal areas in the west, south, and south-west of the island, and are at risk of ...

  3. Drought dents Sri Lanka's economic hopes, farmers' livelihood

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    During the last El Nino in 2016/17, Sri Lanka suffered its worst drought in 40 years and rice output fell by nearly 50% year-on-year to 2.4 million metric tons over both its harvests.

  4. University of Vavuniya - Wikipedia

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    Chancelloris the head of the university and is responsible for awarding all the academic degrees. Usually, the chancellor is a distinguished person in an academic discipline. Otherwise, it is a distinguished person or a clergy in the civil society. The appointment is done by the head of the state, the President of Sri Lanka. The position is ...

  5. Rajarata University of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Faculty of Agriculture (FA) offers B.Sc. Agriculture(Special) four-year degree in Agriculture [3] On the recommendation of the committee on affiliated University colleges (1994), nine Affiliated University colleges spread out in various provinces of the country were merged to form two National Universities, the Rajarata and the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka in 1996.

  6. List of journals published by Sri Lankan universities - Wikipedia

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    Kalyani Journal of University of Kelaniya -University of Kelaniya ; Kelaniya Journal of Human Resource Management — Department of Human Resource Management; Kelaniya Journal of Management - Faculty of Commerce & Management Studies; Sri Lanka Journal of Marketing — Department of Marketing Management

  7. Environmental issues in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Location of Sri Lanka. Environmental issues in Sri Lanka include large-scale logging of forests and degradation of mangroves, coral reefs and soil. Air pollution and water pollution are challenges for Sri Lanka since both cause negative health impacts. Overfishing and insufficient waste management, especially in rural areas, leads to ...

  8. State-sponsored Sinhalese colonisation - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan state-sponsored colonization schemes is the government program of settling mostly Sinhalese farmers from the densely populated wet zone into the sparsely populated areas of the dry zone. This has taken place since the 1950s near tanks and reservoirs being built in major irrigation and hydro-power programs such as the Mahaweli project .

  9. University of Sri Jayewardenepura - Wikipedia

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    The university moved to the new site on 22 November 1961, under the direction of Sri Soratha Thero. The vice-chancellor invited the Department of Government Archives to establish its archives on the campus, near the university library, to encourage research. The Higher Education Act (No. 20 of 1966) [4] opened Sri Lanka's universities to women.