Environment

Many foreigners have collected rubbish together on a beach in the central city of Da Nang over the past month.

Authorities in the Central Highlands city of Dalat have requested people to ask for permission before cutting down any pine tree, as part of efforts to protect pine forests in the area from illegal logging.

Vietnam will greatly reduce coal-based power generation and rapidly increase the share of renewables in the total primary energy supply to 20 per cent by 2030 and 30 per cent by 2045, said Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Thursday hosted an Earth Day event in Da Lat city to mark the completion of the Vietnam Forests and Deltas project and

Numerous proposals have been shared at the World Journalists Conference 2021 where journalists and experts from many countries worldwide discussed measures to battle climate change which is becoming a burning global issue.

Authorities in the central city of Danang have announced a project to make the city an environmental city during the 2021-2030 period.

The central highlands Gia Lai province, in co-operation with Man and the Biosphere Programme, an intergovernmental scientific programme of UNESCO, has completed a dossier for the World Biosphere Reserve recognition of Kon Hà Nừng Highlands.

Many streets in Ho Chi Minh City have been seriously flooded following heavy rain, causing traffic congestion on Friday morning.

Hundreds of households in Nghe An Province's Dien Chau District are complaining about the environment being polluted by wastewater from a local industrial zone.

The Steering Committee of the project “Support to Vietnam for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement” (VN-SIPA) held its second meeting in Hanoi on April 14 with the participation of representatives from certain ministries, sectors, and localities.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc launched a tree planting campaign at a ceremony held at the historical site K9-Da Chong in Hanoi’s Ba Vi district on April 13.

Forest rangers in the central city of Danang’s Son Tra District are seeking ways to rescue a monkey that has been seriously injured by a trap.

Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta will remain an issue between now and late April, an official from the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has forecast.

Many people have continued digging for gold illegally even after Bong Mieu Gold Mine in Quang Nam Province was shut down.

Japan's government has approved a plan to release over one million tonnes of treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday.

A bull weighing around 800 kilos has been found dead at the Dong Nai Culture and Nature Reserve in Ma Da Commune, Vinh Cuu District in the southern province of Dong Nai.

Nepal's population of endangered one-horned rhinoceros has grown by more than a hundred over the past six years, officials said, with campaigners hailing the increase as a conservation "milestone".

Many floating restaurants and cruise boats have been left unused on the West Lake in Hanoi for years.

A rare and endangered turtle weighing up to 22 kilos has been rescued in the northern province of Bac Giang.