Environment

The national week for natural disaster prevention and control 2019 was officially launched in the northern port city of Hai Phong on May 14.

A local sugarcane factory in Hau Giang Province has been identified as the main cause of the severe water pollution in the area.

“A 2 degree temperature rise – likely if we do not scale back carbon emissions urgently - would flood 40% of the Mekong delta and destroy 30 million livelihoods”, said UK Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change.

Bamboo garbage bins in the shape of giant Goby fish have been placed along Da Nang’s long stretch of beach in an initiative by a group of foreigners living and working in the central city.

Vietnam has destroyed over 1.2 million pigs while the African swine fever is still spreading according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A herd of endangered deer wait under the shade of one of the sparse trees in this parched central Myanmar landscape, watching as rangers dispatch drinking water -- a life-saving resource funded by wellwishers across the country.

Boasting some of the best beaches in Vietnam, Nha Trang, Danang and Phu Quoc are now under threat of pollution from wastewater following fast tourism growth.

Since November 2017 I often come to visit Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in Đà Nẵng. There, in the forest’s green lungs, I made friends with the red-shanked doucs, one among 287 species of fauna at Sơn Trà.

Cu Lao Cham Island in the central city of Quang Nam has become overloaded with tourists, further pressuring the locality’s fresh water shortage.

The University of Science under the Vietnam National University-HCM City has set up the first greenhouse gas monitoring station in the buffer zone of the Láng Sen Wetland Reserve in the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

Nha Trang Bay in Khanh Hoa Province is being polluted by wastewater after heavy rains.

Many people in the central province of Quang Ngai have opposed a local industrial park, blaming it for causing severe pollution.

Around 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction and the rate of species' disappearance is accelerating, likely having a grave impact on people around the world, a report by a UN body of scientists has found.

People in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa have opposed a local firm which has set up fences blocking their access to the sea.

A vast area of pine trees has been poisoned in the biggest forest destruction reported so far in the central highlands province of Lam Dong.

A large amount of untreated wastewater has been discharged into a park in the central city of Danang over the past 10 days with the local authorities struggling to deal with the problem.

The Hanoi Urban Environment Company (Urenco) is cooperating with the Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee in Hanoi to implement a pilot program installing cameras to film people littering on the pedestrian mall around the Old Quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake.

Hundreds of people, including Singer Tuan Hung, joined hands to collect rubbish on Ly Son Island in the central province of Quang Ngai.

Authorities of the northern central province of Thanh Hoa have decided to relocate 322 local households from areas which are vulnerable to landslides and floods.