Environment

Storm Noru has weakened into a tropical depression, bringing about torrential rain in the central region and many northern localities in Vietnam.

Moving to low-carbon rice production offers the highest potential for Vietnam to meet its goal of cutting methane emissions by 30% by 2030 while boosting the competitiveness of a strategic export item, a new World Bank report says.

Many central coastal provinces are preparing to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents as super typhoon Noru is entering the East Sea and heading toward the region.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has predicted that storm Noru will enter the East Sea on September 25 evening, and recommended coastal localities to brace themselves for the storm.

The central region of Vietnam is facing a rainy spell which has been forecasted to end on Sunday.

Four rare monkeys have been handed over to Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Hanoi will need about 21 trillion VND (887.27 million USD at current exchange rate) in the coming years to replace all petrol- and diesel-powered public buses with electric alternatives.

Six rhinos have died of unknown causes at an eco-tourism site in the central province of Nghe An.

The US Agency for International Development, and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee on Tuesday launched a project to accelerate renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions to the city’s urban energy challenges.

As many as 119 people in Vietnam are dead or missing so far this year due to natural disasters, according to the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

A seminar took place in Can Tho on September 19 to launch the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s ‘We Love Cities’ campaign in the Mekong Delta city for a greener future.

Hanoi ranked third worst air-polluted city in the world on September 19 according to Airvisual.

A strong earthquake struck southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, killing at least one person, bringing down a handful of buildings and tearing up roads -- but forecasters said the threat of a regional tsunami had passed.

The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap is working on a plan to save red-headed cranes from extinction.

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats that has divided experts on its prospects.

A workshop was held in the central province of Quang Binh on September 16 to review a cooperation model for managing and conserving the Hatinh langur, a critically endangered primate, in a special-use forest in Tuyen Hoa district.

Hundreds of hectares of oysters in the northern coastal province of Thai Binh have died after an oil tanker sank near a local port, causing an oil slick.

Many residents in HCM City's Cu Chi District have complained about the rising pollution blamed on a waste treatment plant.

Thousands of people in the northern central province of Nghe An’s Ky Son District are being isolated due to flooding.