Environment

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on March 12 conducted a field trip to inspect the progress of the flood prevention project in the city.

Hanoi stood second in Southeast Asia in terms of air pollution just behind Jakarta, according to a 2018 World Air Quality Report jointly conducted by Greenpeace and IQAir AirVisual.

Thua Thien-Hue Province will fund 430 flood-proof houses for the people in flood-prone areas from 2019 to 2020.

Four Paws, an international animal welfare organisation, co-operated with authorities of the southern province of Binh Duong rescued two Tibetan bears.

A campaign to respond to the Earth Hour was launched in Hanoi on March 10, conveying the message of “saving energy, protecting earth”.

A campaign named “Day to clean plastic waste 2019” was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on March 9 to raise public awareness and call for practical actions to protect the environment.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam has just released an updated draft on encouraging development of solar power projects in Vietnam.

Scientists have found over a dozen Guar or Indian Bison in the central province of Quang Binh at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park through photographic traps.

A large area of forest in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has been burnt down for farming.

The authorities in Quang Ngai Province are seeking VND90bn (USD3.8m) from the state budget to deal with drought and water shortages that will affect 8,000 people.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved the dumping of 14.3 million cubic metres of mud off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

An illegal tourism site has been built on forested land by the son of an environment official in Quang Nam Province.

Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found.

A photo by Luong Thanh Hai of Vietnam’s meteorological and hydrological agency has won the first prize at a photo competition of the Typhoon Committee (TC).

Dai Nam Group wants to invest VND10 trillion (USD434.7 million) into waste treatment projects in the central city of Danang.

Environmental organisation Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has introduced a short public awareness film about tiger protection.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has allowed the dumping of 15 million cubic metres of sand and mud into waters off Quang Ngai.

Smugglers were arrested in Malaysia on Wednesday with some 3,300 endangered turtles aboard their boat, officials said, as the country battles to clamp down on the burgeoning illicit wildlife trade.

Thousands of households in Quang Binh Province are complaining about having to use contaminated water.