Environment

Illegal sand excavation has continued keeping rampant along the Chu River in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa.

The Deputy Director of General Department of Environment Hoang Van Thuc has announced that waters off four central regions is now apparently safe for tourists.

Vietnam will face grave consequences if it does not take strict action against pollution while striving to achieve the goal of 7% annual economic growth and power sector's 11% annual growth.

The United States is willing to support Vietnam more in responding to climate change, especially in developing clean energy, sustainable infrastructure and smart water resources management, said former US Secretary of State John Kerry at his talks with a

Vietnam aims to increase the nationwide forest coverage to 42 percent, equivalent to 14.4 million hectares, by 2020, according to the target programme on sustainable forest development during 2016-2020 recently approved by the Prime Minister.

Heavy downpours are expected in the northern region until June 21, with warnings of flash floods and landslides in mountainous provinces.

A US-funded programme is providing significant help in implementing an action plan for green growth in the building sector by laying the ground for substantial energy and Green House Gas (GHG) reductions.

The Vietnam Clean Production and Energy Efficiency Project (CPEE) closed in June 2017, reaching 70% of the total energy saving target and 75% of the CO2 emission reduction target.

A $1.2 million illegal shipment of scales from the critically endangered pangolin have been uncovered in Malaysia, officials said Friday, the second such seizure in a week.

Vietnam risks a loss of 7.2 million tonnes of rice yield and 3.2 per cent of its agricultural land by the late 21st century as a result of climate change, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A project on sustainable forests, jointly implemented by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), has officially launched.

A man in Danang City has proposed to local authorities that he should keep his illegally constructed palace in Lien Chieu District as he believes it could be a tourism site.

Due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, about 13-15 storms and tropical depressions are forecasted to arrive in the East Sea this year, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

A HCM City canal has been largely encroached upon by real estate projects while the local authorities have claimed they were unaware of the situation.

Many wells in the southern province of Dong Nai have been found to be contaminated with petrol which is the cause for them to catch fire.

More than 100 national and international practitioners in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation gathered in Hà Nội on Tuesday to discuss forecast-based financing (FbF).

A tropical low pressure the East Sea on June 11 grew into a tropical storm – the first in the sea this year, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre.

G7 environment chiefs meet in Italy Sunday for potentially difficult talks 10 days after Donald Trump sparked a rift with US partners by pulling out of the Paris climate change accord.

Two Vietnamese companies, namely Trung Nam Construction Investment Corporation (Trungnam Group) and Trung Nam Wind Power Joint Stock Company signed contracts with partners on June 10 to implement wind and solar power projects in the south central province of