Environment

Hanoi People's Committee have announced that it will start cutting down the use of disposable plastic products at meetings and conferences starting from September 1.

The biggest hydro-power plant in the central province of Quang Tri has halted operations because of water shortages.

Single-use plastics have been banned in the Everest region to reduce the vast amounts of waste left by trekkers and mountaineers, Nepali authorities said Thursday.

Thousands of fish have suddenly died in Hanoi's Truc Bach Lake.

Danang Water Supply Company announced that water sources have become eight times saltier so they will have to cut supplied freshwater.

Iceland on Sunday honours the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

A town in the central province of Ha Tinh is struggling with waste disposal following the closure of a landfill, while local residents oppose a new dumping ground.

A sick baby dugong whose fight for recovery won hearts in Thailand and cast a spotlight on ocean conservation has died from an infection exacerbated by bits of plastic lining her stomach, officials said Saturday.

The Ministry of Health has proposed measures to cut down on the amount of solid waste used at local hospitals.

One of the fastest-sinking cities on earth, environmental experts warn that one third of it could be submerged by 2050 if current rates continue.

Wild monkeys have been flocking to tourist sites to seek food in Son Tra Peninsula in the central city of Da Nang which is posing dangers for both tourists and the animals themselves.

The severe heatwave which is hitting the northern region is forecasted to end on August 15 while the central region is still being ravaged by the heat.

Thousands of tonnes of litter has been left strewn across a large area of crops in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Dalat City following recent torrential rains.

India issued Wednesday a fresh flood alert for parts of the southern state of Kerala, as the nationwide death toll from the annual monsoon deluge rose to at least 209.

Hundreds of volunteers, including local people and tourists, gathered rubbish in the central city of Danang’s Da Den area located on the Son Tra Peninsular.

Singapore said Monday it will impose a blanket ban on the domestic sale of elephant ivory and products from 2021 as the government tightens its campaign against illegal wildlife trade.

HCM City authorities are seeking solutions to deal with the buried rubbish polluting the area.

Experts have blamed small hydropower plants and a lack of attention to local drainage systems as the cause for recent flooding.

Hundreds of hectares of preventive forests in Phu Yen Province have been damaged by long droughts, causing losses of billions of VND.