Environment

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.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has made plans to deal with the coming locust plague including using military and weather radars to detect the locus.

Hanoi’s People's Committee has officially declared an emergency over erosion in some communes of Chương Mỹ District.

Police in Dak Lak Province are investigating the forest destruction problem in the area.

A Lý Sơn Island resident in the central province of Quảng Ngãi has ignored cynicism and negative comments to continue on his mission to preserve his homeland’s maritime resource.

Protecting the environment in conflicts is a crucial need and a shared responsibility of the international community, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations, has affirmed.