Environment

Facebook has emerged as the top site for wildlife trafficking in the Philippines, a watchdog said Friday, with thousands of endangered crocodiles, snakes and turtles illegally traded in just three months.

Farmers in Ninh Thuan Province are complaining about being attacked by wild monkeys who are also destroying their vineyards.

China's air quality improved across the country in 2017, the environmental protection ministry said Thursday, after the problem was so dire in previous years that some periods were dubbed an "airpocalypse".

Localities in the Central Highlands are working to promote sustainable forest management and certification of forests.

Chinese ships scrambled Monday to clean up a massive oil spill after an Iranian tanker sank off China, raising fears of devastating damage to marine life.

For centuries, residents in Phúc Sơn Commune, central province of Nghệ An have lived comfortably with wild elephants, but as bamboo forests - the main diet of many elephants - are replaced with industrial trees, things are changing.

Ha Nam Province irrigation channel A48 in has been bubbled with thick, white foam for 10 years and the situation is worsening.

While the Vietnamese Government considers the response to climate change a vital issue, the country needs to further adapt its economy towards a more sustainable and eco-friendly growth model, the IMF wrote in its latest report.

About two teachers and 21 pupils at a secondary school in Hai Phong City fainted and had to be hospitalised after inhaling toxic gas from the local steel factory.

An intense cold wave has struck Vietnam’s northern provinces, sending temperatures to as low as 3 degrees Celsius in the high mountains, according to the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Centre (NHMFC).

Four automatic water environment monitoring stations, produced by the Da Nang Centre Of Integrated Circuits were put into operation in the central city of Da Nang on January 6.

Smog that has appeared frequently in Ho Chi Minh City, with the most recent recorded on January 3 morning, shows that local air pollution is now at an alarming level, an expert has said.

Typhoon Bolaven, with the strongest wind speed of 75km per hour near its eye, entered the East Sea on Wednesday morning and becomes the first tropical storm to hit the East Sea this year.

China's complete ban on ivory trade went into effect Sunday, officials said, a major step forward in Beijing's efforts to rein in what was once the world's largest market for illegal ivory.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) plans to launch a communication campaign to promote the non-use of plastic bags as a prelude to its sea turtle conservation programme on Ly Son Island in 2018.

An agricultural waste treatment that uses bioproducts has been developed by scientists from the Centre of New Material and the Hanoi Gardening Association.

Driftwood from the Cai River is being washed up on Nha Trang Beach after two days of heavy rains.

Three out of water supply projects using loans from the World Bank (WB) have been put into operation in Hanoi.

Denmark continues providing non-refundable official development aid to promote Vietnam’s energy development in the framework of the Vietnam-Denmark Energy Partnership Programme in 2017-2020.