Environment

As of early May, Hoa Binh Reservoir only has 813 million cubic metres of water and the power plant can only produce 150 million kWh.

The south-central province of Ninh Thuận is restructuring agriculture to adapt to droughts and secure stable incomes for farmers.

Vietnam is forecast to suffer the highest temperatures ever recorded in 2020, according to the latest report by the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration.

Experts from the Việt Nam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources have found a unique complex of sedimentary rocks that were formed from eruptive volcanoes 12 million years ago on Phú Quý Island, off the coast of central south

Tails are already wagging as Priyanka Gusain stops her car, sacks of cattle fodder and dog pellets on her back seat and water in the boot for her evening rounds in Delhi.

Authorities in Dak Lak Province are planning to rescue an injured elephant that can't return to the wild.

Nearly 200 households in Binh Thuan Province have been isolated after a coastal road was washed away by strong waves.

The Prime Minister has sent an urgent dispatch to the authorities in the northern mountainous provinces and the North Central Coast, as well as related agencies, urging for immediate remedies to the consequences of natural disasters.

Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, head of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, has suggested further discussions to complete an institutional framework on climate change issues.

Hail and strong winds on Wednesday damaged houses, crops and infrastructure in northern provinces including Hà Giang, Lai Châu and Vĩnh Phúc.

People in Binh Dinh Province have handed in two endangered animals to local authorities.

Air pollution in Hanoi is still bad despite social distancing regulations.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has launched a project on promoting low-carbon transformation in the energy sector for the 2020-2030 period and with a vision to 2050.

Ha Tinh People's Committee has proposed to the government to add three more wind power projects into the national power development plan for the 2011-2020 period.

Despite strengthened law enforcement to protect wildlife, legal loopholes are hindering Vietnam’s efforts, activists have said.

More than 200 black shanked douc langurs (pygathrix nigripes) have been spotted in a coastal forest in Thuan Nam district, the central province of Ninh Thuan, local authorities said on April 16.

Thousands of people in the Mekong Delta Region have been given free freshwater to dealwith the on-going drought and saline intrusion.

Three monkeys, which were handed over from two households in the northern province of Ha Tinh, have been released.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved an aid package worth VND 530 billion (US$22.7 million) for drought, saltwater intrusion prevention in eight Mekong Delta provinces.