Environment

Four Paws Organisation has rescued an Asiatic black bear which has been kept by a family in the northern mountainous province of Son La for nearly 30 years.

The Japan-Vietnam Environmental Improvement Joint Stock Company has shown their interest in the initial investment in a project to help tackle the pollution in Hanoi’s To Lich River, using Japanese Nano-Bioreactor technology.

Saigon River in HCM City is facing serious pollution from plastic waste which has been swept into the river.

Reports from the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological indicate that typhoon Kammuri is forecast to move out of the eastern waters of the Philippines and begin to head towards the East Sea from the morning of December 2.

Outstanding law enforcement individuals and collectives with great contributions to wildlife protection were honoured with the third Outstanding Achievement Awards for Wildlife Protection 2019.

The southern province of Bac Lieu is facing rising mounds of rubbish while the waste treatment plant project is stagnant.

The central province of Quang Binh is seeking ways to protect a rare highly threatened kind of langur.

Vietnam has been listed as one of the top five plastic polluters in the world, so eco-friendly technical solutions and the use of bio-degradable plastic products need urgent promotion, participants at a workshop heard on November 29 in Hanoi.

Hanoi has set the target of reducing hard-decomposed plastic bags by 50% at all local traditional markets by the end of 2020, but little has been done to make this a reality.

Protesters in smoke-covered Sydney kicked off a fresh round of global protests against climate change on Friday, with activists and schoolchildren picketing the headquarters of bushfire-ravaged Australia's ruling party.

Many rivers in Hanoi have faced serious pollution for years; however, local authorities have failed to revive them.

A foreign-invested company in Vinh Phuc Province is being investigated after over 100 workers fell ill at work.

The UK has agreed to take back 42 containers of plastic waste illegally shipped to Malaysia, officials said on November 25.

52,700 households in the Mekong Delta are facing a water shortage crisis during the dry season.

Measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions were discussed at a conference organised by the HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Chairwoman of the People's Committee of the northern province of Bac Ninh Nguyen Huong Giang on November 20 hosted a reception for Finnish Ambassador Kari Kahiluoto, during which the two sides discussed the treatment of wastes.

Climate change could directly cost the world economy $7.9 trillion by mid-century as increased drought, flooding and crop failures hamper growth and threaten infrastructure, new analysis showed Wednesday.

Coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Khanh Hoa have been warned to prepare for the Storm Kalmaegi.

A section of Han River in Danang City has been battling serious pollution for months, affecting the local tourism sector.