Sri Lanka’s hourglass frog is only an hourglass frog 77% of the time
HORTON PLAINS, Sri Lanka — Is an hourglass frog still an hourglass frog if it doesn’t have the distinctive marking on its back that gives it its name? That’s one…
Articles by Ifham Nizam
I, Ifham Nizam, a fulltime journalist currently attached to The Daily
Island/Sunday Island, published by the Upali Newspapers Limited (Pvt) Ltd- SriLanka one of the leading publishing establishments in Sri Lanaka.
I have been working with mainstream Sri Lankan media for more than two
decades as a full timer. I specialized in the print media and served as an
environment, energy and science journalist.
My contribution to journalism in Sri Lanka has been publicly acknowledged as I had clinched the prestigious award for the best environmental Journalist of the year (English medium), thrice. Apart from many other awards for covering a wide spectrum, energy, climate change and science.
During my career, I have also covered parliament proceedings for more than 10 years, current affairs, human rights, health, sustainable development and ecotourism. I have the distinction of being a member of the team of journalists that rushed to the northern part of Sri Lanka-Jaffna when soil-tests were done on the Chemmani mass grave sites.
In 2014, as the Asia Journalism Fellowship (AJF), I conducted a comparative study of Sri Lanka and Singapore on Water Management –Nanyang
Technological University- Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information-Singapore.
In 2007, I was selected for the International Visitor Program: Washington D.C Academic Curriculum conducted by University of Southern California And
Washington D.C. California and Jackson Mississippi Participated Leadership
Program.
The world’s a stage for these four new jumping spiders from Sri Lanka
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan researchers have described the first ever species of jumping spiders from the genus Synagelides that are native to the Indian Ocean island, identifying not one but…
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