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Sri Lanka's geographic location makes it vulnerable for climate change impacts. Expected impacts are an increase in temperature, more frequent extreme weather events like floods and cyclones as well as sea level rise. [22] Sea level rise is especially critical for Sri Lanka's coastal regions. [5]
This workshop was highly commended by the school teachers of Jaffna and other districts of the northern province of Sri Lanka.The 2017 Earth Science For Schools workshop was held in collaboration with Education Department of the North Western Province and was attended by over 50 teachers over two days and was the 28th such workshop. [6]
20 May 2010: scientists led by Craig Venter (pictured) create a living cell with an entirely artificial genome. 7 May – Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology describe a draft sequence of the Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) genome in the journal Science. [3]
16 May – NASA confirms that April 2016 was the hottest April ever recorded, beating the previous record set in 2010 by 0.24 °C, the largest margin ever. [ 142 ] 17 May
Ranked as the 4th most affected country by climate change in 2016, Sri Lanka's vast majority of natural disasters are a result of climate variations. Consequently, it necessitates stronger disaster preparedness and proper interventions to build resistance in response to climate change. [5]
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In 2010, it was 28.8% [3] (and 32.2% in 1995. [4]) 9.0% [5] of Sri Lanka's forests are classified as primary forest (the most biodiverse form of forest and the biggest carbon sinks on Earth). Sri Lanka's forests contain 61 million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass (in 2010 [5]).
National Science Library and Resource Centre (NSLRC) (Sinhala: ජාතික විද්යා පුස්තකාලය හා සම්පත් මධ්යස්ථානය -ශ්රී ලංකාව, jātika vidyā pustakālaya hā sampat madhyasthānaya -śrī laṁkāva) of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka is a library, the National Focal Point for the ...