Category Archives: Biodiversity
When Worlds Collide #120: Asia’s smallest state Maldives faces big climate threats
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 5 September 2014 Small island nations are in focus this week, as well as throughout this year. The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #117: Once and Future Organics in Sri Lanka
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 15 August 2014 It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong, cautioned the French writer and philosopher François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778), better known … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #103: Combating Dengue, a ‘Silent Disaster’
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 18 April 2014 The theme for World Health Day, observed on April 7, was vector-borne diseases – a major public health challenge in the tropics. It was … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #100: Seeds of Discord over Lanka’s new Seeds Act
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 14 March 2014 Is the Department of Agriculture (DoA) the biggest impediment to our pursuing sustainable agriculture in Sri Lanka? I once posed this question to the … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #79: SALT can Save Lanka’s Upcountry Land and Soil
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 18 August 2013 “If this flight is a waste of my time, you’re going to pay for it,” Julian Manning, managing director of Ceylon Tobacco … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #78: Homicide by Pesticides: Can we escape?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 11 August 2013 Everybody lives downstream of somebody else! That was the core message in a column I wrote a year ago (26 August 2012) … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #48: The Lasting Echo of Silent Spring
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 30 December 2012 “The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide #15: Robert Lamb – The Earth’s Reporter
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 13 May 2012 Exactly three months ago, on 13 February 2012, Robert Paul Lamb died at his London home. With his untimely exit, I lost a … Continue reading
When Worlds Collide, by Nalaka Gunawardene 