Sri Lanka experienced a nationwide power outage on Sunday after a monkey interfered with an electrical grid in a Colombo suburb. The power failure began at approximately 11:00 local time (05:30 GMT), ...

As much as humans have excelled at conquering our surroundings—from pushing oceans back from seaside communities with walls and pumps to air conditioning homes in arid environments—there is ultimately ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the ...

A monkey that intruded into an electrical grid substation triggered a nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka on Sunday According to government officials, the blackout which began at approximately 11:30 ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --Officials in Sri Lanka said a monkey in the wrong place at the wrong time was to blame for a power blackout that affected the entire nation. Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody told ...

Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide census of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, as part of an effort to tackle the increasing threat to agriculture, the government said Wednesday.

A trip to the island nation in the Indian Ocean also included monkey encounters and visits to three UNESCO World Heritage ...

Hearath most was the emotional behavior of the monkeys themselves, reaching out to comfort one another as if supporting their own community in fear. Moved by this suffering, she began filming the ...

In March, an islandwide five-minute rapid visual census conducted in Sri Lanka estimated populations of crop-damaging wildlife at about 6.5 million monkeys, 2.7 million giant squirrels, and 4.7 ...

Sri Lanka is withholding the results of a survey of crop-destroying wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, because data collected from some farmers appeared unrealistic, a minister said on Monday.