Environment

Pacific island leaders will hold a virtual summit next week to demand urgent worldwide action on climate change ahead of UN-brokered talks on the issue.

Oolong tea hill in Sapa Town in the northern province of Lao Cai will be shut from tomorrow, December 3 after being harmed by visitors.

China landed a probe on the Moon on Tuesday, said Beijing's space agency, which aims to bring back to Earth the first lunar samples in four decades.

An elephant dubbed the "world's loneliest" landed in Cambodia Monday from Pakistan, receiving a warm welcome from American superstar Cher who will accompany it to a sanctuary housing potential mates.

Many roads in the south-central and central highlands regions have been blocked by serious landslides.

HCM City will assess the relationship between the factors that cause climate change and its socio-economic plans to develop long-term responses.

HCM City needs around VND29 trillion (USD1.25 billion) to handle solid waste in the 2020-2025 period.

Local authorities of Con Dao Island District, off the coast of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), have launched a Zero Plastic Waste programme, aiming to eliminate single-use plastic products.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to see a cold snap from Friday evening, the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecasting reported.

Most of the trees on Ly Son Island in the central province of Quang Ngai have been damaged by recent storms.

A vast area of beaches in several central provinces have been seriously eroded as trees have fallen and embankments destroyed after the recent storms.

The 31st Meeting of ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment (ASOEN 31) and related meetings kicked off via videoconference on November 24 and will run until November 27.

Strengthening legislation and communications about wildlife protection was the main topic of a discussion held last week in Hanoi.

The Vietnam Green Building Week 2020 will be held at InterContinental Hanoi Landmark 72 in Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem district by the Ministry of Construction in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from December 9-11.

A large area of a forest in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has been destroyed for months, but local authorities have claimed that they knew nothing about the incident.

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau organised a photo exhibition at Bai Truoc Park in Vung Tau City on November 20 to launch a media campaign themed “Ba Ria-Vung Tau says no to plastic waste”.

Authorities in HCM City are facing difficulties dealing with over 1,500 waste containers that have been left idle at the Cat Lai Port.

After basically containing the spread of COVID-19, Vietnam is becoming the first developing country to adopt carbon pricing in the post-pandemic period to help guide a cleaner recovery.

The residents living along Yen Phu Street in Hanoi's Tay Ho District have complained about the rising amount of rubbish caused by a wage dispute at the local environmental company.