Environment

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is keeping close watch on the development of China’s three nuclear power plants in Guangxi, Guangzhou and Hainan, all of which are provinces that border Vietnam, said minister Trần Hồng Hà during

The dredging at a local dyke project in Phu Loc District, Thua Thien-Hue Province is endangering the environment as well as the infrastructure of Chan May Port.

Saying goodbye to your pets is not easy, but what if it will take them to a better place, beyond what you can offer?

The central city of Da Nang on June 2 held a meeting in Son Tra district to celebrate the World Ocean Day (June 8) and the Vietnam Sea and Island Week.

Landslides along riverbanks and the coast in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have been increasing as local authorities continue to struggle to find solutions amid a budget shortage.

A series of activities are underway in Hanoi as part of the Green Living Festival in response to the action month for the environment and the World Environment Day (June 5).

Hundreds of dead horseshoe crabs have been found at Co To beaches in the northern province of Quang Ninh over the recent days.

The south central coastal province of Ninh Thuan has granted investment licenses to nine solar power projects with a total capacity of nearly 500 megawatts.

Ten years have passed since the World Oceans Day (June 8) was officially recognised as an international holiday by the United Nations (UN). Annually, on this occasion, Vietnam organises response activities and launches the Vietnam Sea and Island Week.

Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call "gruesome and unnecessary."

Around 2,400 baby fish and sea cucumbers have been released to Nha Trang Bay to increase and diversify the marine environment.

Twenty-two embassies and international organisations in Vietnam will sign a code of conduct on the prevention of plastic pollution on June 4, to mark World Environment Day (June 5), according to the Canadian Embassy in Vietnam.

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh has co-operated with local forest rangers to release five animals into the wild.

Poor infrastructure investment in waste treatment has kept Vietnam in the list of five countries who together discharge more solid waste, particularly plastic, into the ocean than the rest of the world combined. The other four countries are China,

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched a communication campaign to cut the use of plastic bags on Ly Son island, as a prelude to its sea turtle conservation programme on the island.

The population of storks as well as many other kinds of birds in a special park in the northern province of Bắc Giang has now declined by more than two thirds due to illegal firecracker explosions.

Vietnam Circus Federation defended their animal treatment after the Asia for Animals Coalition called to end animal cruelty at circuses in Vietnam.

Forest rangers in Quang Nam announced on May 23 that they had captured images of two large-antlered muntjacs in a conservation centre.

Authorities of the northern province of Quang Ninh have officially turned down a chemical plant project due to its environmental risks to the UNESCO world heritage site of Ha Long Bay.