Environment

A billion-dollar hydroelectric dam development in Indonesia that threatens the habitat of the world's rarest great ape has sparked fresh concerns about the impact of China's globe-spanning infrastructure drive.

While wastewater is threatening the environment in Hanoi, a wastewater treatment facility has been abandoned for a decade in Thanh Tri District.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc witnessed the signing of the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership Agreement between Vietnam and the EU which aims to fight illegal logging on the sidelines of the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting Summit.

Nha Trang Bay is facing serious pollution caused by a drain from a surrounding residential area.

Vietnam has set up a fully integrated forestry information database under a project funded by the Finnish Government, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a recent conference in Hanoi.

A range of decades-old trees in a forest managed by the two central provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue have been illegally logged.

The first waste-to-energy plant in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho began trial operation on October 15.

An event took place in Tuy Hoa city, the central coastal province of Phu Yen, on October 12 to review the three-month “Let’s clean up the ocean” campaign across Vietnam.

Customs officers at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi have seized nearly 34 kilos of rhino horn from South Africa.

Sitting in a building made from used tyres, plastic bottles and old sneakers, Cambodian student Roeun Bunthon jots down notes during an English lesson at the "Rubbish School" where tuition is paid for with trash instead of cash.

As one of the countries hardest hit by climate change, Vietnam has been actively performing international commitments and exerting efforts to ease its impacts, on official has said.

Authorities in the southern province of Binh Phuoc have requested an urgent investigation into a serious illegal logging in the locality.

The Danang City Ispection team has just announced a series of wrongdoings in the planning and operations of two steel plants, the Dana-Italy and Dana-Australia in the area.

An endangered hawksbill turtle, scientifically named Eretmochelys imbricate, was released back to the ocean yesterday by Bình Thuận Province’s Department of Fisheries.

Various illegal construction projects have badly affected the Tuyen Lam Lake, one of Dalat City’s most popular destinations.

Authorities of the central city of Danang have seized nearly 10 tonnes of illegally-transported ivory and pangolin scales.

A plan to revive the Kim Nguu River which is one of the worst polluted in Hanoi has attracted lots of attention from the public.

Over 4,900 scrap containers left unclaimed for 90 days are piling up at major seaports across the country, raising environmental concerns.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre has received VNĐ140 billion (US$6.3 million) from the Government to repair two embankments to prevent landslides along rivers and upgrade another on the coast.