Climate change is considered as a global issue with long term inevitable changes in climate. Many parts of Sri Lanka are vulnerable to extreme climatic events. Therefore, this study focuses on the occurrence of extreme ...

Foodborne diseases are mainly associated with the consumption of meat and meat products contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses and parasites. Among them bacteria play a vital role. ...

Fertilizer use efficiency (FUE) of urea in rice cultivation is often less than 30% in Sri Lanka. Losses of urea-N through volatilization, leaching, de-nitrification and runoff cause low profits and multitude of environment ...

The amount of mismanaged plastics entering into the aquatic system has increased with the demand for synthetic plastics around the world. Among these plastics, particles with a diameter less than 5 mm are defined as ...

Sri Lanka has a striking variety of forest types brought about by spatial variations that can be simply classified as tropical rain forests. Deforestation is an incidence of removal of trees and the conversion from ...

This study was conducted to identify the impact of attitudes towards environment on green purchase behavior with the mediating effect of green purchase intention. Sample of the study was selected among the customer ...

Biofilms are microbial associations as communities on a biotic or abiotic surface by secretion of matrix where they thrive in stressful environments. These communities can be formed by single species or by multiple ...

Chlorophyll fluorescence transient measurement has proved a strong technique to investigate the photosynthesis functions and integrated measurement to identify the stress responses. This technique uses the energy flux ...

Salvinia molesta (Salvinia) is an invasive aquatic weed with dimorphous leaves. This species has the capacity to cover the surface of even large bodies of standing and slow-moving water, forming a dense, continuous mat ...

The selection of fertilizer responsive rice varieties is one of the important criteria in rice improvement programs. Fertilizer responsiveness is important to reduce the cost of production and minimize the possible ...