Environment

The authorities in Hoi An have reinforced heritage sites and called for the locals to reinforce their houses before Storm Noul.

The central region has planned to evacuate over 1 million people as Storm Noul is forecasted to speed towards Vietnam on September 18.

Plastic waste can take up to hundreds of years to decompose, creating an increasing burden on landfills, particularly when the sites run out of space to bury garbage.

The Japan-Vietnam Environment Company has proposed to upgrade the To Lich River in Hanoi into a park with investment from Japan.

A tropical depression in the East Sea/South China Sea has strengthened into a tropical storm, known as Noul, becoming the fifth storm to affect Vietnam in 2020, according to the national weather service.

A pine forest in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has died after being poisoned.

A Taiwan bird protection group said Tuesday it has been kicked out of BirdLife International -- a global conservation partnership -- after refusing to sign a statement saying it would never advocate for the island's independence from China.

Two tourist boats have been fined VND8 million (USD347.82) for throwing votive papers into the Huong River in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.

The central province of Quang Ngai has started a campaign to reduce the use of disposable plastic products at local tourism sites.

A huge amount of fish has been found dead on a river in the northern province of Ha Nam due to serious pollution.

The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang has declared an emergency following repeated erosion along a canal bank in Long Xuyen city’s My Thanh ward.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang will plant 250ha of new protection forests in coastal areas from 2021 to 2025, twice the amount of the 2015-20 period, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

People in the mountainous area of Thanh Hoa Province have complained about pollution caused by nearby overloaded rubbish dump.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has earmarked VNĐ680 million (US$29,500) to provide relief for households affected by natural disasters in five districts so far this year.

Authorities of the central province of Ha Tinh have set free four monkeys and crested serpent eagles back into the wild.

On September 11, the Environment Police Department in Hanoi announced that they had caught two trucks illegally dumping waste by Thang Long Avenue.

A man in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has been prosecuted for illegally keeping up to 127 rare tortoises.

A typhoon that struck North Korea wrecked nearly 60 bridges and destroyed or inundated more than 2,000 houses, state media reported Wednesday, with leader Kim Jong Un saying the damage had disrupted central planning for the rest of the year.

Air pollution, especially fine particles pollution, will become more serious in the northern region from September.