Environment

A workshop was held in Hanoi on March 29 to discuss urban resilience to extreme climate issues in Southeast Asia.

Hanoi’s air quality index over the past three days has reached dire levels.

Local farmers in Thanh Son Commune, Dong Nai Province, have complained about their plants being destroyed by rampaging wild elephants.

Two brothers in Hanoi’s outlying district of Ba Vi has been fined VND1.5 million (USD65.21) for posting a clip killing two rare birds on Youtube.

Tonnes of rubbish have covered My Khe Beach in the central city of Danang after heavy rains.

Police in the central province of Nghe An announced on Monday that they had arrested a local man for illegally trading two tiger cubs.

Many Vietnamese artists have actively responded to the global Challenge for Change movement for environmental protection.

Dozens of valuable trees have been illegally logged at a nature reserve in the northern province of Hoa Binh.

More than 3,000 cu.m of untreated wastewater is released into Hanoi’s Cầu Bây Canal through 26 discharge points daily.

A ceremony in response to the World Meteorological Day 2019 was held in the northern port city of Hai Phong on March 23, calling for actions to protect human lives and assets in the context of increasing extreme weather phenomena.

A rare three-month-old albino penguin made its first public appearance at a zoo in the Polish Baltic port city of Gdansk, where its keepers claim it is the only one of its kind in captivity.

A group of Canadian visitors have called on people to gather litter on a beach in Binh Dinh Province’s Quy Nhon City.

The people in Hai Duong Province's Cam Giang District are expressing concerns over pollution problems after local authorities approved a waste-to-electricity project in the area.

A Thai tycoon accused of poaching a black leopard at a wildlife sanctuary arrived in court Tuesday for the highly anticipated verdict -- a case that has fuelled outrage in a country fed up with impunity and corruption.

A starving whale with 40 kilos (88 pounds) of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen.

More than 1,000 volunteers are participating in the Earth Hour campaign with the theme “Connect to Earth”, which was kicked off on yesterday at the Youth Cultural House in District 1 in HCM City.

Vietnam Rivers Network is launching a campaign to search for untouched rivers all over the country to call on policy makers, investors of development projects and the community to protect rivers.

A young man in the central city of Danang and his cousin have joined the global Challenge for Change movement to collect litter at Son Tra Peninsular.

Dozens of false ebony trees have been destroyed in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Forest only a kilometre away from Con Roang border guard station.