Environment

Natural disasters are claiming over 400 lives and causing a loss of between 1%-1.5% GDP a year for Vietnam.

A water drainage and pollution reduction project related to HCM City’s Tham Lương–Bến Cát–Rạch Nước Lên canal has committed many violations, according to the city authority.

The Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee held a ceremony in Tam Ky city on March 27 for the launch of Truong Son Xanh, a US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project on climate change response in the locality.

The 2018 Vietnam Renewable Energy Summit opened in the central coastal city of Nha Trang yesterday.

Local people living along the Nguyen Tat Thanh Beach in the central city of Danang have complained that the sea water became black with brown foam and a foul smell.

Agricultural intensification and growth in the past three to five decades have provided a solid footing for the development of East Asia.

The Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower and Moscow's Red Square were among the world landmarks to go dark Saturday, as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change.

Young orangutan Utu clings to one of his rescuers as he is freed from the tiny wooden cage that has been home for five years.

The water environment in the world-renowned Hạ Long Bay has been under tremendous pressure from the growing socio-economic activities in the area.

The construction of hydro-electric dams in several countries on the mainstream of the Mekong River has seriously impacted the lives of people living along it, a forum heard on Tuesday in Cần Thơ City.

Many people in Trung Tu Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi, have blamed Hanoi Medical University Hospital for discharging sewage and polluting Lu River.

More of a giant France-sized glacier in Antarctica is floating on the ocean than previously thought, scientists said Tuesday, raising fears it could melt faster as the climate warms and have a dramatic impact on rising sea-levels.

Vietnam is struggling to find solutions, especially ‘green’ solutions to address challenges in water resources management with environmental damage, climate change and unsustainable water exploitation driving the water-related crisis.

Summer is predicted to come later with cooler temperatures this year according to Le Thanh Hai, vice head of the National Centre for Hydro-meteorology Forecast.

Danang, which is seen as Vietnam’s most livable city, has seen more polluted rivers, affecting local lives.

Dozens of households in Duc Tho District, Ha Tinh Province are complaining about pollution caused by an overloaded dumping site in the area.

Overexploitation in the East Sea is decimating fish stocks which may not be able to recover.

Da Lat Solid Waste Treatment Plant in Lam Dong Province has been caught illegally burying around 40,000 tonnes of solid waste, according to the Lam Dong environmental police board.

With the cold high pressure system weakening and moving east and a subtropical high pressure system crossing the south, there will be a heat wave in the south, including HCM City, until May, according to the Southern Region Hydro-Meteorological Centre.