Environment

Experts have claimed the Mekong Delta will suffer from fiercer drought and saline intrusion this year due to the late flooding season.

China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons under climate change, said researchers Monday, presenting evidence for a recent rise in storm intensity caused by ocean warming.

Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has suggested Canada, Vietnam and other signatories to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change join hands to achieve the target of limiting the planet’s warming to below 2 degrees Celsius reached at the 21st

Even though increased budgets have been allocated to environmental protection, Vietnam’s environmental protection has remained at just 1% of total annual expenditure.

Illegal wildlife trade is rampant at many areas in some provinces in the Mekong Delta Region, especially around the Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap Province.

The Vietnamese renewable power sector, especially solar power, is becoming more attractive in foreign investors’ eyes due to the increasing demand for renewable energy in the country.

Vietnam sees the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a basic and long-term way of fighting climate change, according to Tran Hong Ha, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE).

A consultation workshop on the risk mapping results of rural infrastructure with flash floods and landslides has just been held in Hanoi by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Authorities in HCM City are trying to find the source of the odour that is affecting several districts in the city's southern area.

August is usually the flooding season when the rivers are provided with more water, however this year people are still waiting the floods.

Haze of black smokes from forest and bush fires have caused visibility problems in Riau in the past two days, especially in the morning, the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said.

A Vao Commune in Dakrong District, Quang Tri Province, has been plagued by illegal gold miners for years despite the efforts of local authorities.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc will stop clearing natural forest land for the planting of industrial trees with high economic value, the provincial authority has announced.

The population explosion and rapid urbanisation have exerted pressure on HCM City’s environment, experts have said at a seminar held last week on the environmental problems facing the city in the last five years.

The Ca Mau provincial authorities have approved a VND 400 billion (US$ 17.92 million) plan to preserve and develop the U Minh Ha national park.

Urbanisation in Vietnam reached 15 per cent growth – a double increase over past two decades, making a 75 per share of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but it needs a big change in earning ‘green growth’ over

Indonesian authorities have seized more than 650 critically endangered pangolins found hidden in freezers and arrested a man for allegedly breaking wildlife protection laws, police said Friday.

Air pollution in Singapore rose to the "unhealthy" level on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) said, in a repeat of an annual crisis.

The authorities in Mekong Delta region are struggling to deal with river bank and coastal erosion which is threatening the lives of many people.