Month: August 2020
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Sri Lanka Ranked 109th in Environmental Performance Index 2020

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On June 4th 2020 researchers from Yale and Columbia universities released the Environmental Performance Index for the year 2020. The index rank 180 countries on 32 performance indicators across 11 issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality and considered as the premier metrics framework for global environmental policy analysis. According to the data published Sri Lanka is ranked 109th out of 180 countries in the EPI 2020. Overall EPI score for Sri Lanka is 39 out of 100 which shows how bad our performances were in environmental health and ecosystem vitality issues.

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Sri Lankan Scientists Develop a Non-Hazardous and Environmentally Friendly Process to Produce Titanium Dioxide from Ilmenite

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A group of research scientists led by Prof. Chandana Udawatte from Sabaragamuwa University, has developed a novel method of producing Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) using locally available Ilmenite from mineral sand reserves in Pulmudai. The findings from this study were published in the Journal of American Chemical Society, ACS Omega.

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