Environment

President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized the deployment of Brazil's armed forces to help combat fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, as a growing global outcry over the blazes sparks protests and threatens a huge trade deal.

An Indonesia man is walking backwards from his home in eastern Java to the capital Jakarta to raise awareness of deforestation in a country with one of the highest rates in the world.

The central city has asked management boards of two hydro-power plants of A Vương and Đắk Mi 4 to discharge at least 8.2 million cubic metres from reservoirs to save the city from a serious water shortage that has

Fish have continued to be found dead at West Lake, the largest lake in Hanoi, over recent days.

A national festival will be held to honour the best environmental films in Hanoi.

Hanoi People's Committee have announced that it will start cutting down the use of disposable plastic products at meetings and conferences starting from September 1.

The biggest hydro-power plant in the central province of Quang Tri has halted operations because of water shortages.

Single-use plastics have been banned in the Everest region to reduce the vast amounts of waste left by trekkers and mountaineers, Nepali authorities said Thursday.

Thousands of fish have suddenly died in Hanoi's Truc Bach Lake.

Danang Water Supply Company announced that water sources have become eight times saltier so they will have to cut supplied freshwater.

Iceland on Sunday honours the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

A town in the central province of Ha Tinh is struggling with waste disposal following the closure of a landfill, while local residents oppose a new dumping ground.

A sick baby dugong whose fight for recovery won hearts in Thailand and cast a spotlight on ocean conservation has died from an infection exacerbated by bits of plastic lining her stomach, officials said Saturday.

The Ministry of Health has proposed measures to cut down on the amount of solid waste used at local hospitals.

One of the fastest-sinking cities on earth, environmental experts warn that one third of it could be submerged by 2050 if current rates continue.

Wild monkeys have been flocking to tourist sites to seek food in Son Tra Peninsula in the central city of Da Nang which is posing dangers for both tourists and the animals themselves.

The severe heatwave which is hitting the northern region is forecasted to end on August 15 while the central region is still being ravaged by the heat.

Thousands of tonnes of litter has been left strewn across a large area of crops in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Dalat City following recent torrential rains.

India issued Wednesday a fresh flood alert for parts of the southern state of Kerala, as the nationwide death toll from the annual monsoon deluge rose to at least 209.