Environment

Hanoi’s Industry and Trade Department has proposed to build automatic car wash systems at 67 filling stations as a measure to curb air pollution in the city.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc underlined the importance of strengthening cooperation to cope with climate change at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 8.

Sixty eight animals from eight wild species have been rescued and released into the Bai Tu Long National Park in Van Don district, northern Quang Ninh province on July 6.

Huong Khe Town in the central province of Ha Tinh has been covered in rubbish and a foul smell as their only dumping site is overloaded.

The Government held a meeting on Thursday to discuss urgent measures to limit illegal sand mining in the country, which has reached epidemic proportions in response to a boom in construction demand.

Đà Nẵng authorities will ask for State funding to build a sea dyke to prevent erosion in Sơn Trà Peninsula after a villa project in the area was eroded last week.

Hanoi authorities are planning to clean several polluted rivers and improve their surroundings.

Mud and red soil from a controversial tourism resort project in Danang City’s Son Tra District has polluted the local beach.

Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains since June 19 have killed six persons in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

Many people in Quang Tri Province are still destroying the forest to create short-term agricultural land despite a prime ministerial order to close all forests in the area last year.

Humanity must put carbon dioxide emissions on a downward slope by 2020 to have a realistic shot at capping global warming at well under two degrees Celsius, the bedrock goal of the Paris climate accord, experts said Wednesday.

Ha Quoc Quy, a local in HCM City has transferred a protected bird to the Saigon Zoo.

The central province plans to protect a herd of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) who have lived in a forest in Núi Thành for 10 years.

Mountains in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ha Long Bay are being destroyed for stones by the navy.

China has broken ground on a "forest city" in the southern city of Liuzhou. The development, which will span two-thirds of a mile along the Liujiang River, involves blanketing offices, apartments, hotels, and schools with more than a million

Nine bears raised at a bile farm in Di An town, Binh Duong province were rescued by the Animals Asia Foundation (AAF) on June 26.

The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland's ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans, scientists said on Monday.

The Vietnamese Government and the Green Climate Fund announced the first GCF-funded project in Vietnam, focusing on supporting vulnerable, highly disaster-exposed communities to protect themselves from the impacts of frequent typhoons and floods.

Although the controversial tourism development plan for the Son Tra Peninsula is still waiting for final approval from the prime minister, a vast area of forest has already been cleared and illegally posted no entry signs are apparent.