Environment

The Central Highlands region will try to reach a target of restoring forest coverage rate of over 49 per cent by 2030.

Reserving a 2,600sq.m garden in Dong Na village in Cam Ha commune – a farming intensive suburban area of Hoi An – local farmers and businesses have joined hands to debut the first zero-waste agriculture and tourism zone in

Hundreds of households in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau are facing the high risk of being hit by landslides in the rainy season.

A large number of traps used for hunting wild animals on Son Tra Peninsular have been seized in the central city of Danang.

Monk Thich Hanh Nhan, head of Duc Lam Pagoda, in the central province of Quang Ngai and local people are building a house from plastic bottles to raise awareness about environment protection.

An endangered Asian elephant died on Friday after being electrocuted by a low-hanging high-voltage wire in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said.

A company in Hai Phong City has been found using wastewater from a local canal for bottled water production.

Vietnam may order schools to shut down on days when the air quality is poor, according to the draft law revising the 2014 Law on Environment Protection.

Projects to upgrade several canals linked to Tan Son Nhat International Airport remain delayed due to tardy site clearance and lack of investment, so the airport would continue facing flooding in the rainy season.

Young people across the country are encouraged to develop innovative and practical solutions for plastic waste management in the framework of the “Youth and Innovation for Ocean” campaign launched on Monday by UNESCO.

China has removed pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, state media reported Tuesday, days after increasing legal protections on the endangered animal.

The North and Central regions are expected to endure the current heatwave for several more days to come, with the extreme heat in the North being likely to recede from June 13, according to the national weather service.

Hanoi authorities have agreed to spend VND114 billion (USD4.95 million) on washing local streets in order to help mitigate air pollution and relieve the scorching heat.

Hanoi became the world’s most polluted city according to a ranking by IQ AirVisual on Sunday.

The World Bank in Vietnam announced on June 6 that the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors had approved an USD84.4 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to support Vietnam’s multi-sectoral policy reforms so as to promote climate-resilient

HCM City will vow to deal with the inundation in city centre areas by next year, said Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Construction Huynh Thanh Khiet.

The Action Month for Environment was launched in Hanoi on Friday to mark World Environment Day (June 5).

The Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has appealed for an end to commercial farming of endangered wildlife, in an attempt to conserve biodiversity on the occasion of the World Environment Day 2020 (June 5).

Vietnam Environment Administration reported that the air quality in Hanoi in May improved greatly thanks to the rainy season.