Environment

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.

Another cold front arrived earlier on Tuesday, plunging the northern region into the coldest days so far this winter and bringing rainfall to central Vietnam after disastrous downpours over the weekend.

A female sun bear was rescued yesterday after 15 years in captivity in a border district of Tây Ninh Province in southeast Vietnam.

My Khe Beach in Danang City’s Ngu Hanh Son District has been covered with waste following torrential rains over recent days.

The central province of Ha Tinh has submitted an urgent plan to protect the elephant for the 2019-2025 period to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

More than 750 runners from 31 countries and territories joined a running event in Hanoi on December 9 as part of efforts to raise public awareness of protecting tigers from the risk of extinction.

The Ho Chi Minh City government will commence a project to build six underground water reservoirs and one ground reservoir in January 2019 as part of its flood control efforts.

Vietnam is among the 10 countries and territories most affected by extreme weather events in the past two decades, according to the Global Climate Risk Index 2019 of Germanwatch, which was released at the annual climate summit in Poland recently.

Malaysia on Thursday torched nearly three tonnes of seized scales of endangered pangolins worth $9 million in a bid to deter illegal wildlife trafficking from Africa.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau is facing coastal erosion which has worsened over recent years.