Environment

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha visited the Lee & Man Paper Mill in Hau Giang Province and approved its operation after the mill was forced to halt operations for a water pollution investigation.

France and China's space agencies unveiled their first joint satellite in Beijing Friday, which will be used to improve forecasting of ocean storms and cyclones.

Ta Hoa Phuong, president of Vietnam Association of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, has asked the prime minister to scrap the cable car project in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Climate change will cause some 250,000 additional deaths from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat exposure per year between 2030 and 2050, warned Director of the Department of International Cooperation Tran Thi Giang Huong on October 19.

A bomb clearance and disposal team of Peace Trees Vietnam on October 17 successfully handled and moved 27 artillery shells left from the war in Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri.

The central city of Đà Nẵng is set to build the first solar farm in the country that could connect to the national grid as early as the first quarter of 2018, project officials say.

Water intrusion in the central coastal province of Thừa Thiên-Huế has threatened 700 families, with local authorities struggling to find a solution.

Tropical storm Khanun has passed the north of the Philippines’ Luzon Island and entered the East Sea, becoming the 11th typhoon hitting the waters this year, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

The construction of a waste-to-energy plant began in Tram Than commune, Phu Ninh district, Phu Tho province, on October 12, which is the first ever waste-to-energy plant in Phu Tho and the neighbouring provinces in the northern midland and

More people have rushed to Son Tra Peninsular in Danang City to capture photos of red-shanked douc langurs, raising concerns that this would affect their living environment.

Thousands of people in Hoi An Town are facing a water shortage as the town suffers from a severe salinity problem.

Six wild elephants went on a rampage in a village in Nghe An Province and destroyed crops on October 10.

Natural disasters could become more destructive in Asia-Pacific, where a person is already five times more likely to be affected than in other regions, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, urging countries to invest in resilience plans.

Director of Thuong Thao Trade and Investment JSC Le Van Thiet has been detained for an investigation into the destruction of 61 hectares of forest in An Hung Commune, Binh Dinh Province.

People living and working in Ho Chi Minh City will be able to avoid flooded areas by receiving necessary information on their smartphone, both iOS and Android, from the UDI Maps app created by the Ho Chi Minh City

More than 8,000sq.m of special-use forests were destroyed in just three months between July and September in Dong Met village, Pa Khoang commune, Dien Bien district, in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

Robust sustainable banking guidelines and urgent action by banks are needed to prevent a looming environmental and social crisis that could cripple the region’s economic growth, the World Wide Fund for Nature warned in a report on Thursday.

The planning of medium to small-sized hydropower plants for the safe, efficient and sustainable development of renewable energy was the focus of discussions at a seminar held in Hanoi, on October 5.

Vietnam needs to implement policies of climate change mitigation in an inclusive and comprehensive way. Of that, mitigation actions might benefit the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people, experts have said.