Environment

Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh suggested that the Mekong – Lancang Cooperation (MLC) should focus on enhancing sustainable management and use of Mekong River water resources to balance interests and responsibility of countries along the river.

Pangolin smugglers are constantly opening up new routes to evade law enforcement agencies, a study showed Friday, highlighting the challenge of tackling the trade in the world's most heavily trafficked mammal.

Tourism businesses operating programmes that exploit wildlife could be charged with new offenses, the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC said at a conference for sustainable tourism development held in Huế City.

Tropical low pressure operated in the North of the Philippines and gained power to become a tropical typhoon under the international name of Kai-tak.

A large group of monkeys and douc langurs have been found in a forest in the central province of Quang Tri.

Nearly 100 tonnes of rubbish have been washed up onto the beach at Danang City while the waste disposal company said they had too few staff to deal with the pollution.

Thousands of households along Xuyen Tam Stream in HCM City are facing the serious pollution every day as the stream has been turned into a dumping ground.

As many as 18 million residents in the Mekong Delta are suffering serious consequences as the Mekong River is drying up due to over exploitation of hydropower plants in upstream countries, delegates heard at a recent conference in the

A train has struck and killed five elephants as they crossed over tracks at a tea plantation in northeast India, an official said Monday.

A 500m section of beach in Ngũ Hành Sơn District of the central city of Đà Nẵng has been seriously eroded by uninterrupted rain and rising sea waves in the last two months.

A team from Animals Asia arrived in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong on a mission to rescue six moon bears that have been caged in a bile farm for at least 12 years.

People around the world beset by the impacts of global warming like droughts, heat waves and storm surges are calling for "climate justice," and many are pleading their cases in court.

Winter this year is forecasted to come late but is likely to be much colder than previous years.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has fined the Sao Vàng Nha Trang Joint Stock Company, the owner of the Sapphire Hotel project, VNĐ320 million (US$14,000) for not completing an environmental assessment plan before construction.

The rescuing centre in Bạch Mã National Park has received a rare wild cat following efforts by a resident of central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

The central province of Quảng Ngãi has lifted its temporary suspension and decided to allow the dumping of dredged mud off the coast of Mỹ Khê Beach.

Despite billions of đồng spent on wastewater treatment facilities, many projects are still incomplete and wastewater pollution remains a huge problem.

A tourism company in the central highlands has given an elephant to Dak Lak Province's Centre for Elephant Conservation.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorology Forecasting reported that cold air would start affecting the northern provinces from Thursday afternoon.