Environment

A 500m section of beach in Ngũ Hành Sơn District of the central city of Đà Nẵng has been seriously eroded by uninterrupted rain and rising sea waves in the last two months.

A team from Animals Asia arrived in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Duong on a mission to rescue six moon bears that have been caged in a bile farm for at least 12 years.

People around the world beset by the impacts of global warming like droughts, heat waves and storm surges are calling for "climate justice," and many are pleading their cases in court.

Winter this year is forecasted to come late but is likely to be much colder than previous years.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has fined the Sao Vàng Nha Trang Joint Stock Company, the owner of the Sapphire Hotel project, VNĐ320 million (US$14,000) for not completing an environmental assessment plan before construction.

The rescuing centre in Bạch Mã National Park has received a rare wild cat following efforts by a resident of central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

The central province of Quảng Ngãi has lifted its temporary suspension and decided to allow the dumping of dredged mud off the coast of Mỹ Khê Beach.

Despite billions of đồng spent on wastewater treatment facilities, many projects are still incomplete and wastewater pollution remains a huge problem.

A tourism company in the central highlands has given an elephant to Dak Lak Province's Centre for Elephant Conservation.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorology Forecasting reported that cold air would start affecting the northern provinces from Thursday afternoon.

Illegal logging is still rampant in the Central Highlands despite Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s order to close the forests in the Central Highlands more than a year ago.

Nearly 200 workers were mobilised to work overnight for dredging Hoan Kiem Lake.

Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Limited Company who are working on a plan to clean Hoan Kiem Lake have confirmed that no turtle is living in the lake.

One hundred and forty five greenhouse gas mitigation options have been proposed following a collaboration project with Japanese experts on supporting Vietnam’s reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Twenty-eight firms, including Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation and Nui Phao Joint-venture Co., Ltd., have been put under special environmental control by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

HCM City will offer many preferential policies for projects using technology application in waste treatment to produce electricity.

An initiative for managing natural disasters was introduced on Friday in the context of increasing extreme weather events in Vietnam.

It is estimated that Vietnam has lost VNĐ45 trillion (US$2 billion) due to natural disasters this year, Nguyễn Đỗ Anh Tuấn, director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, said.

Afforestation and timber trade campaigns are among various events that will be held across Vietnam to highlight co-operation between Vietnam and Finland and particularly to celebrate 100 years of Finland’s independence, which falls on December 6.