Environment

A USD800-million project to build a wastewater treatment plant and wastewater collecting drain system for Hanoi’s major rivers, including To Lich River, is at a standstill.

The on-going hot spell which is ravaging the central region has set some new records.

The prolonged heat wave and severe drought in Quang Tri and other central provinces has badly affected local people.

Hanoi’s total water supply capacity is sufficient to meet the demand of the capital city’s residents during summer, said Secretary Hoang Trung Hai at a meeting on June 27.

Malaysian customs officers arrested two Indian men attempting to smuggle over 5,000 terrapins through the country to be sold as pets, officials said Wednesday.

The height of the Fansipan peak in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, the highest mountain in Indochina, was actually 3,147.3 metres, according to the Department of Survey Mapping and Geographic Information under the Ministry of Natural Resources

Five people in Nghe An Province have been sentenced to a total nearly 14 years in prison for hunting rare animals.

A graffiti campaign has been conducted in some Vietnamese localities to call for the public protection of wild animals.

The ongoing heat wave in Nghe An Province has destroyed hundreds of hectares of tea trees in the local areas.

Formosa Company has addressed all the violations as committed with the Vietnamese government after the environmental disasters that caused mass fish deaths the along the country’s central coast.

Himalayan glaciers are melting twice as fast now as they were before the turn of the century, according to a new study that relied on recently declassified Cold War-era satellite imagery.

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down.

Japanese experts have continued cleaning up the heavily polluted To Lich River in Hanoi with the technology to decompose sludge into carbon dioxide and water.

The government of Canada said on June 17 it is in discussions with Malaysia about retrieving plastic waste that originated from Canada and is currently in Malaysia.

Up to five tonnes of dead fish have been been collected at two lakes in the central city of Danang.

A seminar was held in the central province of Quang Tri on June 14 to review activities to clear unexploded ordnances (UXO) left over by the war for the 2016 – 2020 period.

Among 10-12 storms or tropical low pressure forecast to hit East Sea, up to five are forecast to directly impact Vietnam’s mainland from July – December 2019, according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting.

Nepali activists rallied in Kathmandu on Friday calling for an end to religious animal sacrifices, months ahead of a festival that in the past has seen tens of thousands of animals slaughtered.

Vietnam Maritime Administration (Vinamarine) is seeking authorities of the central province of Binh Dinh for dumping 300,000 cubic metres of mud off the coast of Quy Nhon City.