Environment

The 6th meeting of the Vietnam-Netherlands intergovernmental committee on climate change adaptation and water management took place in The Hague, the Netherlands.

About 264 people were killed and 1,000 injured as the consequences of natural disasters and weak hydropower plant management in 2016 according to a Monday conference.

Illegal poaching, logging and fishing of sometimes critically endangered species is taking place in nearly half of the world's most protected natural sites, environmental campaigners WWF warned Tuesday.

With a strong sense of responsibility for a green and clean capital city, young volunteers from the National Charity Club joined hands to remove waste from Hanoi’s To Lich River on April 16.

Farmers in the southern province of Dong Nai are complaining about their crops being damaged by a large herd of hungry wild elephants.

The many mineral exploitation projects in the central region of Vietnam, either those legally licensed or unauthorised ones, have made a tangible impact on farmlands, particularly in the central provinces of Bình Định and Quảng Nam.

Farmers in the Mekong delta have stored fresh water as preparation for the upcoming drought since now.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to implement a national action programme addressing the consequences of bombs and mines left over from war in 2016-2020.

Vietnam may surpass China to become one among 10 countries with the most serious environmental pollution in the world by 2035 if the country continues maintaining the current industrial development, experts warned.

Fish farmers in Hau Giang Province have decided to stop their work for fear of possible wastewater discharges from the Lee & Man Paper Manufacturers.

Environmental experts have pointed out problems with the idea of raising fish by the waste water discharge lake at Lee & Man Paper Plant in Hau Giang Province.

Vietnam’s national forest cover is targeted to reach 42% of the total land area, equivalent to 14.4 million hectares, by 2020.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged the Ministry of Public Security to investigate the illegal sand extraction at Cua Dai Beach in the central province of Quang Nam.

Malaysian authorities have seized about $3.1 million worth of rhinoceros horns flown in from Mozambique via Qatar, the latest seizure in Asia of products from endangered species to feed demand for traditional remedies, officials said on Monday.

Industrial waste dumped at landfills is causing significant environmental problems in the country. As Vietnam's economy grows, industrial waste disposal has become more of a challenge.

Three wild monkeys have just been released after being kept captive for more than 10 years in Ha Tinh Province.

Customs officers have detected two consignments containing pangolin scales at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.

Locals at Hoa Tien 2 Village in Da Nang City are accusing a local hot-dip galvanising factory of discharging untreated wastewater and killing the rice fields and livestock.

Most people look for a place to hide when a typhoon is on the horizon, but Atsushi Shimizu hopes that the fury of nature may one day help resource-poor Japan tackle its energy woes.