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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 environmental pollution. Sri Lanka is also vulnerable to climate change impacts such as extreme weather events and sea level rise. [1]
Sri Lanka's forests contain 61 million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass (in 2010 [14]). The southwest portion of the island, where the influence of the moisture-bearing southwest monsoon is strongest, is home to the Sri Lanka lowland rain forests. At higher elevations they make the transition to the Sri Lanka montane rain forests.
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Montana; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority (SCCWRP) [26] UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California at Los Angeles [27]
An environmental ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for the environment and/or natural resources. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of the Environment, Department of the Environment, Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Natural Resources or Ministry for the Ecological Transition.
Environmental Foundation Limited (EFL) is a public interest litigation and environmental conservation organisation in Sri Lanka. Established in 1981, EFL seeks to protect and conserve the natural environment through litigation, advocacy, awareness and youth-engagement.
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment or the natural environment.
Pages in category "Environmental history of Sri Lanka" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
Pages in category "Environmental organisations based in Sri Lanka" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .