Environment

People in a village in the southern province of Soc Trang are being nuisanced by a group of wild monkeys.

A USD800 million wastewater treatment project which was expected to help revive the To Lich River has seen no progress after two years.

Hanoi Sewage and Drainage Ltd. Company have recommended using water from the Red River to supply West Lake and to clean To Lich River.

Officials in Danang have raised concerns about the increased problems of flooding and environmental issues in the city.

Dozens of foreign visitors gathered to collect rubbish at a beach near Pham Van Dong Street in Nha Trang City on December 18.

A Vietnamese woman was arrested for allegedly smuggling more than 22 kilogrammes of endangered elephant tusks in Thailand on Sunday, Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper has reported.

Buôn Ma Thuột police in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) province of Gia Lai have seized 51 wild animals at a restaurant in the city’s Tân Tiến Ward.

A large slaughter house will be moved out of the centre of Hoi An Town next year to prevent environment pollution according to local authorities.

Ecosystem-based solutions are vitally important for the Mekong Delta to adapt to climate change in the decades to come, speakers said at a seminar held in Cần Thơ over the weekend.

Cambodia seized more than 3.2 tonnes of elephant tusks hidden in a storage container sent from Mozambique, a customs official said Sunday, marking the country's largest ivory bust.

Many environmentalists have raised concerns over the proposal to build a spiritual tourism site in Hanoi’s Hương Sơn Commune which is home to Hương (Perfume) Pagoda.

Đà Nẵng plans to build its first waste-to-energy project at Khánh Sơn dump.

Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source.

Illegal ivory is widely available at physical and online retail outlets throughout Vietnam, according to a new TRAFFIC report published with support from USAID.

Some 30 kilometres of beach in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has suffered from serious erosion.

Dozens of nations threatened with catastrophe from unchecked climate change warned on Thursday they "face extinction" without immediate action to rein in mankind’s emissions, as UN climate talks limped towards their conclusion.

Many restaurants in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are serving wild animals, but local authorities say it's hard to deal with the problem.

The authorities in Quang Nam Province are going to spend VND100bn (USD4.3m) on a project to protect the endangered gray-shanked douc langur.

Son Tra Island and some other beaches in Danang City have continued to face serious erosions and landslides after the heavy rains over the past few days.