Environment

The northern province of Hưng Yên has prepared a list of 13 enterprises that need improvement for causing environmental pollution last year.

The population of Cambodia's critically endangered river dolphin is growing for the first time in decades, conservations said Monday, hailing a major turnaround for the freshwater species.

Vietnam is reviewing and updating the country’s carbon emission target to better comply with the Paris agreement on climate change and prepare for the global assessment later this year.

Experts and scientists have discussed how to promote the application of technological solutions to produce clean energy, and form communities using smart energy, towards making over Ho Chi Minh City as a smart city in a seminar on April 20.

US Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Mary Tarnowka has called for actions to improve public awareness of plastic waste as well as measures to reduce and recycle plastic waste.

Thousands of hectares of U Minh Ha cajuput forest in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are facing the high risk of fire due to long drought.

Nearly $10 million being provided by Norwegian People's Aid to continue work clearing away unexploded ordnance in central province.

The water of Hoan Kiem Lake has turned a strange colour in recent days due to the impact of a kind of poisonous algae.

A deputy secretary of Ia Rsai Commune Party Committee in Gia Lai Province has been accused of using agricultural land to build a tourism site.

Da Loc Commune protective coastal forest in Thanh Hoa Province has become a huge dumping site as large amounts of rubbish are being washed up on the beach.

Of Nghe An’s 124 sand exploitation locations, 101 are unlicensed.

People in Hanoi’s Bac Tu Liem and Tay Ho districts have been living with a seriously-polluted river for many years, but the local authorities have seemed to ignore the problem.

More than 100,000 Asian openbill storks now nesting in the Gáo Giồng Cajeput Forest in Đồng Tháp Province are receiving special protection from the forest’s management board.

A rubbish dump in Phu Quoc Island’s An Thoi Town is severely over capacity and polluting the surrounding neighbourhood.

Approximately 12-13 typhoons and tropical depressions are forecast to form on the East Sea area in 2018, with five to six typhoons that will directly affect Vietnam.

An additional individual of the Swinhoe's Softshell Turtle has been found in Hanoi thanks to the efforts from the Asian Turtle Programme of Indo-Myanmar Conservation.

The northern region will suffer a mini heat wave before being hit by a cold spell next week.

Many sections of the dyke along Hoi An Town’s Cua Dai Beach have been seriously damaged.

The Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk plans to build 18 multi-billion dollar solar power plants by 2020.