Environment

A 1 km-long severely polluted stream is directly discharging waste water from a coal mine into Ha Long Bay.

Authorities in Hoi An are seeking measures to deal with the rising amount of waste.

The Institute of Geophysics at the Ministry of Science and Technology has successfully built a modern warning and monitoring system to collect input data for forecasting heavy rain and flooding in Hanoi.

A project funded by the Norwegian Government made debut at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on October 4, aiming to help Vietnam turn plastic wastes from the oceans into chances in a circular economy.

Dao Dang Cong Trung fell in love with the beauty of Son Tra Peninsula and has been cleaning up the beaches and sea since 2010.

The detoxification work at Rang Dong Light Source & Vacuum Flask JSC in Hanoi is slated to be completed within the next five days.

An awards ceremony for a photo contest on encouraging the youth to take action on climate change was held in Hanoi on October 3.

People in Hanoi are buying expensive masks to protect themselves from serious air pollution.

Hanoi has taken a range of measures to cope up with the severe air pollution which has worried the public, said an official from the municipal people’s committee.

Post-harvest straw burning at Hanoi’s suburban areas has worsened the air pollution in the city which has reached alarming levels in recent days.

Air pollution in the capital city of Hanoi has risen to serious levels over the past two days.

More than 2,000 people engaged in a programme to clean beaches in Da Nang on September 28.

Up to roughly two tonnes of fish have been found dead at a beach in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Authorities in Lam Dong Province are investigating the destruction of a pine forest in the area after various violations were found in community-based forest management.

The European Union Delegation in partnership with Climate Change Working Group and the University of Danang today organised the workshop on “Youth Action for Climate” as part of the the European Union Climate Diplomacy Week 2019.

The project on “Development of Solar Energy in Da Nang” on Friday morning officially inaugurated the rooftop solar photovoltaic system in Vo Thi Sau Primary School in the central province of Danang.

The rapid development of greenhouses for vegetable and flower cultivation in the last two decades has had a negative effect on the environment in the central resort city of Da Lat.

Hanoi and HCM City have been named among the top three cities with the most serious air pollution in the world according to the air quality index (AQI) ranking by Air Visual.

More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and grassland.