Environment

Long Bien Bridge is one of Hanoi’s most iconic landmarks. However, it is being seriously polluted by large amounts of rubbish.

HCM City has called for investment in environmental protection projects from now through 2025 and announced incentives for such investment as it seeks to resolve certain problems soon.

Dozens of houses by Da River have been evacuated due to erosion after some other fell into the river.

Localities in Hanoi’s suburbs have been covered with a huge amount of rubbish due to recent floods.

Authorities of the central city of Danang plan to build a system of drains for coastal wastewater in Ngu Hanh Son District.

A rare python which was kept by a family in the central province of Ha Tinh has been released back into the wild.

Four earthquakes, measuring from 2.7 to 3.5 on the Richter scale, hit Bắc Trà My and Nam Trà My districts in the central province of Quảng Nam on Thursday morning (July 26), but no damage or casualties were reported.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said that the recent Lao hydroelectric dam collapse would not have a significant impact on Vietnam.

Quang Nam’s authorities have decided to provide an additional VND55bn (USD2.20m) to save the Cua Dai Beach from further serious erosion.

Violations of environmental protection regulations and illegal imports of scrap into Vietnam must be investigated and strictly punished to avoid being repeated.

Vietnam planted a total 12,385ha of coastal forest between 2015-2017 via climate change response and coastal forest protection project for 2015-2020, which raised the coastal forest coverage from 16.9 percent in 2014 to 17 percent last year.

An "unprecedented" heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials said Tuesday, with the weather agency now classifying the record-breaking weather as a "natural disaster."

Hanoi’s Nguyen Khang Street has faced mounting piles of rubbish as collections have halted for two days following protests over a waste treatment plant.

Proper management of water and fires at the Tràm Chim National Park in Đồng Tháp Province holds the key to preserving the Ramsar site’s eco-system, experts have said.

The coral reefs near Cu Lao Cham Island in Quang Nam Province are being restored and monitored to ensure a rich ecosystem.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has proposed Hanoi authorities to conduct an urgent investigation into the recent massive fish deaths on the West Lake.

The HCM City People’s Committee has petitioned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to restrict the granting of new licences to exploit groundwater.

Environmentalists have warned of the overexploitation of the country’s fisheries stocks, but fishermen are continuing to use electrical impulses and mines while ignoring heavy sanctions.

Chinese customs authorities said they seized 156 prehistoric mammoth tusks from a truck entering from Russia in one of the country's largest such hauls.