Environment

The Vietnam-Australia Energy Roundtable 2018 will be organised by the Australian Government in partnership with the Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade on Tuesday in Hanoi.

Six Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in Malaysian palm oil plantations in recent weeks, officials said Monday, the latest of the endangered creatures to perish as their rainforest habitat is devastated.

The Dong Thanh rubbish dump in Ho Chi Minh City has been converted into an orchard, drastically improving the environment in the surrounding neighbourhood.

A project to encourage more people to cycle and help the environment has won a global award.

Investment procedures to build a toxic chemical project near Ha Long Bay have been completed, which has stirred public concerns over the pollution risk to the world heritage site.

An illegal logging site has been found in part of the Kôn River protected forest – the fourth recorded case of logging violations in the central province since January.

The Sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) will take place from June 27-28, 2018 at the Furama International Conference Center in Da Nang, Vietnam. This assembly was set up to tackle the planet’s most pressing environmental problems.

Hanoi suffered from air pollution most of the days in in the first quarter of this year, according to a report from the Hanoi-based Green Innovation and Development Centre.

The northern and central region experienced a heat wave from today, May 14, with the hot weather set to continue until the weekend.

The National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting yesterday warned northern mountainous provinces that there would be a high risk of landslides for the next couple of days.

Large amounts of wastewater from nearby polluted lakes are discharged into Ha Long Bay every day, threatening the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A man in Lam Dong Province has been fined VND357.5m (USD15,700) for illegally keeping douc langurs and monkeys for producing traditional 'medical' glue.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Friday officially launched the USAID Saving Species project.

Vietnam has made progress in aquatic environment management in river basins thanks to a project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The drainage system at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City is being blocked.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 9 chaired a working session with leaders from provinces in the Mekong Delta on soil erosion situations, which tend to expand in both of scope and scale.

A research exhibition titled “Plastic Matters: Wild Lives" is on display at the International Centre of Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) in the central city of Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh Province.

Vietnam and China on May 8 jointly released aquatic resources into the Tonkin Gulf at the border gate of the cross-border Bac Luan (Beilun) River in Dongxing city, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.

US Science Envoy Dr Margaret Leinen has raised concerns about plastic waste as Vietnam is among top five countries that generate most plastic waste in the ocean.