22+ hour, 43+ min ago   (64+ words) The Morning 13 Sep 2026 | BY Staff Writer The Department of Meteorology has issued an ‘Amber’ advisory for high waves of 2.0 to 3.0 metres in sea areas from Chilaw to Pottuvil via Colombo, Galle and Matara. The advisory is in effect until 12.00 noon…...

22+ hour, 43+ min ago   (1065+ words) 13 Sep 2026 | BY Staff Writer The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored. In an essay, Dario Amodei said developing AI was not in…...

18+ hour, 43+ min ago   (74+ words) The Morning 13 Sep 2026 | BY Staff Writer The Department of Meteorology has issued an Amber-level warm weather advisory for the North Central and Eastern provinces and several districts tomorrow (14). The heat index is expected to reach the ‘Caution’ level in some…...

22+ hour, 43+ min ago   (64+ words) The Morning 13 Sep 2026 | BY Staff Writer The Department of Meteorology has issued an ‘Amber’ advisory for severe lightning in five provinces and four districts. The advisory is in effect until 11.30 p.m. today (13). Thundershowers with severe lightning and temporary strong…...

22+ hour, 43+ min ago   (77+ words) 13 Sep 2026 | BY Staff Writer The Department of Meteorology has forecast afternoon thundershowers in most parts of Sri Lanka today (13). Heavy rainfall of around 100 mm is possible in some areas of the North Central, Central, Sabaragamuwa, Western and North Western provinces....

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (672+ words) The Morning This is no longer someone else's heatwave The numbers released this week by European climate scientists indicate that August has tied with July 2023 as the hottest month ever measured, with the planet's average temperature pushing past 1.5 degrees Celsius…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1022+ words) 10 Sep 2026 | BY Anoka Primrose Abeyrathne The number has travelled quickly because it is almost impossible to forget: more than 800 elephants dead in Sri Lanka this year (2026). It sounds like the kind of statistic that should stop a country in its…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (204+ words) The overall water capacity of the 74 major reservoirs under the Irrigation Department remains at a low level of around 34 per cent, Director of the Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Department, Engineer L S Sooriyabandara, said on Tuesday (8). He…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (612+ words) 09 Sep 2026 | BY Anoka Primrose Abeyrathne On the afternoon of 24 August, residents of Heiyanthuduwa saw something that no community should ever see in the water flowing through its paddy fields. It had turned a striking blue. This was, thankfully, a contamination…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (89+ words) The Morning 09 Sep 2026 | By Staff Writer Several spells of showers will occur in the Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in the Galle and Matara districts today (9), according to the Department of Meteorology. Showers or thundershowers may occur at several places…...