Environment

The Ministry of Transport plans to label energy certificates for new motorcycles which are manufactured, assembled and imported to Vietnam.

While segregation of garbage at source is considered a good way to minimise its effect on the environment, HCM City is facing many challenges in its implementation.

A trumpet fills the air as two "elephants" charge, scattering Rohingya refugee actors at a training session in a camp which cuts deep into Bangladeshi forest once reserved for the protected species.

As hot weather peaks this month in southern Vietnam, authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong Delta) region are stepping up efforts to cope with forest fires and salinisation as a response to climate change.

A large amount of garbage was taken out of a drainage canal in Hanoi after pollution was reported by the media.

Education for Nature-Vietnam has proposed to seize 11 tigers which are being kept at a farm in Thanh Hoa Province but local authorities have no idea where to transfer them.

Farmers in Ninh Thuan are facing difficulties feeding and watering their sheep even though the dry season has just started.

Motorbikes from the 2000s generate 416% more hydrocarbons, 3,220% more nitrogen oxides, and 8,065% more carbon monoxide than motor cars made in the same decade, research reveals.

Water and agricultural land in Nhơn Hải Commune, Ninh Hải District of the south central province of Ninh Thuận has been contaminated with high saline levels, affecting local production and livelihoods.

Natural disasters are claiming over 400 lives and causing a loss of between 1%-1.5% GDP a year for Vietnam.

A water drainage and pollution reduction project related to HCM City’s Tham Lương–Bến Cát–Rạch Nước Lên canal has committed many violations, according to the city authority.

The Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee held a ceremony in Tam Ky city on March 27 for the launch of Truong Son Xanh, a US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project on climate change response in the locality.

The 2018 Vietnam Renewable Energy Summit opened in the central coastal city of Nha Trang yesterday.

Local people living along the Nguyen Tat Thanh Beach in the central city of Danang have complained that the sea water became black with brown foam and a foul smell.

Agricultural intensification and growth in the past three to five decades have provided a solid footing for the development of East Asia.

The Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower and Moscow's Red Square were among the world landmarks to go dark Saturday, as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change.

Young orangutan Utu clings to one of his rescuers as he is freed from the tiny wooden cage that has been home for five years.

The water environment in the world-renowned Hạ Long Bay has been under tremendous pressure from the growing socio-economic activities in the area.

The construction of hydro-electric dams in several countries on the mainstream of the Mekong River has seriously impacted the lives of people living along it, a forum heard on Tuesday in Cần Thơ City.