Environment

The Australian government on Thursday launched the Plastics Innovation Hub in Vietnam which aims to deliver new innovations to tackle plastic waste in the country.

Four tremors with magnitudes of up to 3.2 vibrated throughout the mountainous district of Kon Plong in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum early on June 22, the Institute of Geophysics reported.

Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.

While the northern and central regions are experiencing scorching heat, the forecasting centre said the heat may become more extreme in the time ahead.

A project to upgrade Xuyen Tam Canal in HCM City was approved in 2002, but to date, it has remained on paper, resulting in serious pollution.

The last captive bear in the southern province of Binh Phuoc was handed over to the centre of Free The Bears in the Cat Tien National Park on June 17.

Flood, fire and drought-battered Australia is trying to clean up its act on climate change, but dependence on fossil fuel riches could stymie the national makeover.

The United State Agency for International Development (USAID) Biodiversity Conservation Activity has launched a $1.4 million Species Conservation Fund (SCF) in Vietnam to support locally-led conservation efforts initiated by Vietnamese NGOs and other independent organisations.

Local authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh's Ky Anh Town are investigating the mass deaths of 25 hectares of coastal protective forest in the area.

Australia's new centre-left government submitted new, more ambitious, emissions targets to the United Nations Thursday, seeking to end a decade of footdragging on climate change.

International industry experts and businesses in the energy sector stressed the importance of cross-border cooperation and technology transfer for the region’s efforts to shift away from coal power at an online webinar on June 15.

Results of dioxin treatment technology tested at Bien Hoa airport, the most contaminated spot in Vietnam, were released at a seminar in Hanoi on June 15.

The United Nations is launching a crowd-funding campaign for an operation intended to prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea, a senior official said Monday.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday launched a new project to help Vietnam control illegal wildlife trafficking.

The northern and northern central region will face heavy rains in the next three days from Monday evening, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Fiji faces its biggest threat from "devastating climate change" rather than geopolitical tensions, the country's defence minister warned Sunday at a high-level security summit.

The beautiful coral reefs which are a special tourist attraction in Nha Trang Bay are dying en masse.

Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan on June 10 hosted a reception for a delegation of US government officials and business representatives who are visiting Vietnam to find ways to boost bilateral

Authorities of the central province of Quang Nam have been working to converting production forest areas on Hon Do mountain in Nui Thanh district into special-use forest areas in order to expand the natural habitat and ensure a suitable