Environment

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.

Survivors scrambled for higher ground as torrential monsoon rains swept away homes and triggered landslides across South Asia Tuesday, with millions of people affected and at least 180 dead, officials said.

The flooding in almost one-third of Bangladesh districts has left at least 20 people dead, affected half a million people and displaced thousands of families, a disaster official said on Monday (July 15).

Hoi An is facing a water crisis which has badly affected the daily lives of local people as well as tourism activities.

The water quality in Hanoi's West Lake has improved after being treated using Japanese nano-bioreactor technology.

Indian Railways have come up with a novel way of getting elephants to buzz off from train tracks: speakers that play the sound of bees to scare the jumbos away.

Major storm Barry slammed into Louisiana on Saturday, pelting the region with heavy rain and ferocious winds as millions of Americans braced for the serious flooding expected to follow.

Sharks -- the sea's top predators for millions of years -- are at risk of disappearing from the Mediterranean as overfishing and plastic pollution choke populations of the endangered hunters, conservationists warned Friday.

Urban heat islands in HCM City and other large cities in Vietnam are causing heat waves with some of the highest recorded temperatures ever in the country, affecting public health.