Environment

Numerous proposals have been shared at the World Journalists Conference 2021 where journalists and experts from many countries worldwide discussed measures to battle climate change which is becoming a burning global issue.

Authorities in the central city of Danang have announced a project to make the city an environmental city during the 2021-2030 period.

The central highlands Gia Lai province, in co-operation with Man and the Biosphere Programme, an intergovernmental scientific programme of UNESCO, has completed a dossier for the World Biosphere Reserve recognition of Kon Hà Nừng Highlands.

Many streets in Ho Chi Minh City have been seriously flooded following heavy rain, causing traffic congestion on Friday morning.

Hundreds of households in Nghe An Province's Dien Chau District are complaining about the environment being polluted by wastewater from a local industrial zone.

The Steering Committee of the project “Support to Vietnam for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement” (VN-SIPA) held its second meeting in Hanoi on April 14 with the participation of representatives from certain ministries, sectors, and localities.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc launched a tree planting campaign at a ceremony held at the historical site K9-Da Chong in Hanoi’s Ba Vi district on April 13.

Forest rangers in the central city of Danang’s Son Tra District are seeking ways to rescue a monkey that has been seriously injured by a trap.

Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta will remain an issue between now and late April, an official from the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has forecast.

Many people have continued digging for gold illegally even after Bong Mieu Gold Mine in Quang Nam Province was shut down.

Japan's government has approved a plan to release over one million tonnes of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday.

A bull weighing around 800 kilos has been found dead at the Dong Nai Culture and Nature Reserve in Ma Da Commune, Vinh Cuu District in the southern province of Dong Nai.

Nepal's population of endangered one-horned rhinoceros has grown by more than a hundred over the past six years, officials said, with campaigners hailing the increase as a conservation "milestone".

Many floating restaurants and cruise boats have been left unused on the West Lake in Hanoi for years.

A rare and endangered turtle weighing up to 22 kilos has been rescued in the northern province of Bac Giang.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to see a light cold spell and heavy rain from this evening, April 8.

Authorities of Ha Long City in the northern province of Quang Ninh have decided to install a wastewater treatment system for Ha Long Bay.

Authorities in Quang Ngai Province are considering ending the Ly Son-Sa Huynh Geopark Project after five years with an investment of over VND20bn (USD863,000).

The latest draft of the country’s power development plan puts focus on renewable energy development – however, the Mekong Delta should see more attention in the development of renewables to protect its assets in the long run.