Environment

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.

The coastal area of Go Cong Dong, a major agricultural hub in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, has taken effective measures against drought and saltwater intrusion into rivers this year.

Many people continue to swim at a rubbish-strewn man-made beach in the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Ha Long City.

The Nature Education Centre recently announced the findings of a programme on the assessment of the spread of wildlife violations in 42 districts of nine provinces and cities with the involvement of 12,840 trading establishments, in an effort to

Seventeen bears – which used to be kept in captivity and illegally traded to harvest their bile - are living in a bear conservation centre in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

Côn Đảo National Park is one of the most popular coral reef diving destinations in Việt Nam. With coral cover of about 65 per cent, it has some of the most gorgeous jagged coral reefs in the country.

Thua Thien-Hue Province has issued Decision No.1038 on receiving and implementing the 2nd phase of the carbon and biodiversity project funded by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

A ground-breaking fusion reactor built by Chinese scientists is underscoring Beijing's determination to be at the core of clean energy technology, as it eyes a fully-functioning plant by 2050.

Farmers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak are facing difficulties due to serious droughts.

Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta is expected to increase between April 28 and May 6 as the volume of water flowing southward from the Mekong River will decline.

Han River in Danang City is being polluted by wastewater from nearby restaurants.