Environment

A Saigon Zoo member of staff and a group of students are transforming elephant dung into paper.

A large amount of fish has been found dead in the Yen So Lake in Hanoi's Hoang Mai District over the past few days.

Japan's government warned Monday of a power crunch as extreme heat hits the country, with temperature records toppling and Tokyo's rainy season declared over at the earliest date on record.

Xuan Son Landfill in Hanoi's Son Tay Town has stopped receiving waste from June 23 due to overloading.

Ngụy Thị Khanh, former head of NGO GreenID and known for advocating the reduction of coal-fired power in Vietnam, was handed a prison sentence for economic crimes, not her environmental activism, spokesperson for the foreign ministry Lê Thị Thu

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.