Focus on built environment

Architecture is the art we live in. Waking, sleeping, recreating, loving and living, we spend so much time at home and it seems a shame not to make your place of residence both functional and radical. However nowadays people are more keen to get ideas from the professionals when building their houses.

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault:

‘Doomsday Vault’ to preserve seeds

Located in an artificial tunnel carved into an Arctic mountain covered by permafrost is the ultimate security for global food and agricultural diversity. ‘Svalbard Global Seed Vault' known as “Doomsday Vault” and “Noah's Arc for World's Seeds” is considered as the ultimate safety net for the samples of seed collections of important food crops stored in seed banks or gene banks across the world.

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The world's deadliest delicacy

Puffer, blow fish, swell fish and Pethiya in Sinhala are found in our lagoons and the sea. They drift into lagoons at high tide. They are brought ashore along with the other marine fish by the beach seine (madel) fishermen. It is not edible.

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