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As a boy in Sri Lanka, Ray Jayawardhana wrote to NASA’s JPL asking for Voyager photos. Weeks later, a manila envelope arrived, filled with images of distant worlds. Four decades later, he’s president of Caltech, which runs JPL. What a story. explorers.com/ray-jayaward... @nationalacademies.org

Separated by sea, Sri Lanka’s cobras hold a distinct genetic identity shaped over millions of years. New research confirms their evolutionary divergence from Indian mainland lineages, shedding light on both taxonomic debate and the island’s rich natural heritage. Malaka Rodrigo reports.

I love this: "It's time we try to understand a bit more about trade and exchange," Chirikure said, "particularly by comparing the communities in places like Sri Lanka and southern Africa. Because it's the water that separated people, but it was also the water that connected people."

🙂 Sri Lanka frogmouth 23cm NOCTURNAL Exclusively native to Western Ghats of SW India and Sri Lanka Diet a wide variety of insects and small invertebrates Nest fork of an evergreen tree. Female lays ONE single egg. Both parents incubate 28days Both feed it 25days, and 2 months after fledging

The rusty-spotted cat is the world's smallest wild cat & are found in India, Sri Lanka, & Nepal. They weigh just a few pounds & are elusive, making them difficult to study. Little is known about their ecology. indiandefencereview.com/meet-the-wor...

Adorable Grey-headed canary-flycatcher tiny energetic forest bird measuring 12cm in length Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal Sri Lanka An expert catching tiny insects mid-air! Active and vocal throughout the day, joining larger mixed-species foraging flocks moving through the forest.

Cyclone Ditwah caused $4.1B in damage in Sri Lanka, at a scale planners never designed for. Read why water systems built on past patterns can't keep up 💧 @iwmi.bsky.social https://on.cgiar.org/4y2VtzK

Set in early nineteenth century Sri Lanka, Children of the Sun is streaming now on SBS On Demand 🇱🇰 www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...

Can natural ventilation cool Sri Lanka's urban spaces? With home heating and cooling driving nearly a third of the nation's energy demand, passive cooling techniques offer a low-energy alternative to keep indoor spaces comfortable in warming cities. Kamanthi Wickramasinghe reports.

En este libro, el best seller hindú azuza el odio racial entre las diferentes etnias de la India, especialmente contra las minorías musulmanas y sijh, exige la vuelta del sistema de castas y pide la reunificación de Pakistán, Bangladesh y Sri Lanka bajo un nuevo estado teocrático llamado "Baratha".

Pendentif, Ceylan (actuel Sri Lanka), seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. Cristal de roche sculpté, ivoire sculpté présentant des traces de polychromie et de dorure, or et perles, 4,6 cm × 3,8 cm. Prix sur demande © PAB Aguiar-Branco Antiques

“Not Genuine with Justice” Sri Lanka’s Lack of Will to Prosecute Past Abuses www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

During a recent visit to northern Sri Lanka, MAG Ambassador Rosamund Pike met communities still living alongside landmine contamination. There, she met Victoria, who at 18, lost both hands after picking up a metal object while collecting firewood. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/iJ4qTZk 📸 Avani Rai

Anfangsverdacht für Straftat im Rathaus in #Raunheim +++ #Landeskriminalamt untersucht geschredderte Wahlunterlagen +++ Bürgermeister Rendel muss sich zudem am 8. Dezember wegen versuchter Nötigung vor Gericht verantworten 👉 www.fr.de/rhein-main/k... @fr-zeitung.bsky.social #FRDarmstadt #LKA #Hessen

Day 13 ‘Flimsy’ #inktober2026 #inktober #inktoberflimsy #flimsy #elephantegg When my brother got married in Sri Lanka, we released some newly hatched elephants into the sea. Come to think of it, they might have been turtles 🤔

NEPAL / SRI LANKA: Nepal-Sri Lanka multi-stakeholder delegation reviews India’s construction workers’ welfare model www.bwint.org/BwiNews/News...

Wenn es Sri Lanka gibt, muss es auch Wan Lanka und Tu Lanka geben, oder?

Il primo ministro indiano teme che, com’è successo in Nepal, Sri Lanka e Bangladesh, la generazione Z riesca a far cadere il governo. Leggi l'articolo di Frontline.

An evening walk on the beach after a heavy monsoon shower. #SriLanka 🇱🇰 #monsoon #MoragallaBeach 📷 #landscapephotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather

Sri Lanka blue Magpie 42-47cm lifespan 10-15years monogamous birds form lifelong pairs and lives exclusively in the dense evergreen rainforests and hill forests of southwestern Sri Lanka diet invertebrates, fruits and berries Male/Female identical Families flock stay together often permanently.