Environment

A company director in Hanoi claims he can clean up the severely-polluted To Lich River in just six months.

Ha Long Bay Management Board has made an agreement with 15 service providers to pilot a ban on plastic products on tourist boats starting from August 1.

Fire has ravaged a forest in the southern central province of Binh Dinh for more than a day.

A workshop was held in Quang Tri province, on July 24, to kick start the third phase of the ‘Building resilience to natural hazards in Central Vietnam’ project.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent an official document directing local authorities to deal with the severe drought in the central region on July 24.

A bison weighing up to 800 kilos has been found dead in a forest in the southern province of Dong Nai for unknown reasons.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta region are calling for water-saving as the water level in the Mekong River is record low.

The central province of Nghe An has planned to spend VND18.7 billion (USD826,086) on preserving elephants which are at risk of extinction.

A tiger escaped from a wildlife park in India's flood-ravaged Assam and stretched out on a shophouse bed Thursday, startling residents and shining a spotlight on the plight of animals caught up in the deluge.

A Ly Son Island man is building a house from 6,000 plastic bottles.

HCM City authorities have promised that the VND10trn (USD430.8m) anti-flooding project will be operational by mid-2020 if everything goes smoothly.

Rapid urbanisation is eating away at Ho Chi Minh City's green space, with parks coming under increasing threat from shops, cafes, office blocks and parking lots.

Tens of hectares of rice in the central region are dying from drought while over 10,000 households are facing serious water shortages.

June 2019 was the hottest June in 140 years, setting a global record, according to the latest monthly global climate report released on July 18 by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Ha Long Bay managers are trying to deal with the huge amount of rubbish dumped at sea.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Vietnam Environment Administration and the World Economic Forum held a meeting to discuss the launch of a national action programme on plastics for Vietnam.

The recent water discharge into To Lich River in Hanoi has affected the pilot river pollution treatment project using Japanese technology.

An air quality monitoring system placed at the Embassy of France in Hanoi – 57 Trần Hưng Đạo Street – started operation on Tuesday, raising the number of France-funded air quality monitoring systems in Hanoi to 11.

A reported tropical depression in the eastern part of Luzon Island (the Philippines) has strengthened into a storm and is approaching towards the waters near Vietnam’s East Sea, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.