Hazardous chemicals, plastic micro-pellets, and now an oil spill -- the sinking X-Press Pearl has done incalculable damage to Sri Lanka's coast and waters. The fire on the cargo ship, which has ...

The Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl had been on fire for two weeks near the port of Colombo. Part of the hull has now settled on the seabed. Experts fear hundreds of tonnes of oil in the ship's ...

A chemical-laden cargo ship is sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster. The Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl had been on fire for almost two weeks before ...

A U.N. representative in Sri Lanka said the chemicals released by the X-Press Pearl sinking caused "significant damage." "An environmental emergency of this nature causes significant damage to the ...

The delay in completing the investigations related to the deletion of emails related to the X-Press Pearl disaster was due to the central storage server in the digital forensic laboratory at the ...