Environment

Thousands of tonnes of litter has been left strewn across a large area of crops in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Dalat City following recent torrential rains.

India issued Wednesday a fresh flood alert for parts of the southern state of Kerala, as the nationwide death toll from the annual monsoon deluge rose to at least 209.

Hundreds of volunteers, including local people and tourists, gathered rubbish in the central city of Danang’s Da Den area located on the Son Tra Peninsular.

Singapore said Monday it will impose a blanket ban on the domestic sale of elephant ivory and products from 2021 as the government tightens its campaign against illegal wildlife trade.

HCM City authorities are seeking solutions to deal with the buried rubbish polluting the area.

Experts have blamed small hydropower plants and a lack of attention to local drainage systems as the cause for recent flooding.

Hundreds of hectares of preventive forests in Phu Yen Province have been damaged by long droughts, causing losses of billions of VND.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) of Indonesia has warned about high risks of forest and land fires in many Southeast Asian countries as a result of dry conditions in the region.

Nearly 2,000 turtle eggs brought from Con Dao Island have been successfully hatched in Cu Lao Cham Island in the programme to restore and conserve sea turtles in the Quang Nam Province's island.

About 15 tonnes of breeding fish of different varieties, including 193,000 individuals of rare indigenous fish, were released to nature in Vam Nao River crossing Binh Thuy commune, Chau Phu district, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.

The rivers and lakes in Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Tri provinces are drying up in the on-going drought.

A Japanese expert was so confident about the Japanese bio-nanotechnology treatment in Hanoi’s polluted To Lich River that he took a swim.

Thousands of houses in Phu Quoc Island off the southern province of Kien Giang have been flooded following torrential rains and high sea levels over recent days.

About 3,000 tonnes of waste, which is supposed to be buried at Cờ Đỏ District’s dumping sites in Cần Thơ City, will be burned to produce energy on a trial basis, according to local authorities.

The water level of around 1,800 reservoirs in the northern and northern central region is posing flooding risks for many localities during the rainy season.

More than 800 volunteers joined a campaign to clean Kim Lien beach in the central city of Da Nang on August 7, which was jointly held World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Vietnam, Prudential Vietnam and the municipal Department

A section of a sea dyke in the southernmost province of Ca Mau’s western coast has been eroded due to high flood tides.

Quang Nam province is seeking sustainable solutions for the conservation of critically endangered primates living in a primary forest, which is home to 50 endangered grey-shanked douc langurs.

A US$625,000 project for ecosystem management at Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap was launched at a conference held by the Vietnam Forest Inventory and Planning Institute (FIPI) in Ho Chi Minh City.