Environment

Over the past week, more dead fish have been washed up on a beach in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue's Phu Loc District.

Local people living along Thi Vai River in Dong Nai Province are trying to adapt to the scant numbers of fish since the river was heavily polluted by Vedan Company eight years ago.

A photo contest entitled “Our Water, Our Life” has been launched in Hanoi to enhance public awareness of water security and climate change in Vietnam and around the world.

Five hundred households in Dong Ao and My Tho communes in the northern province of Ha Nam’s Thanh Thuy District claimed that they have been suffering serious environmental pollution for many years.

Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp. (FHS) has denied their responsibility in the recent dumping of around 100 tonnes of toxic waste from its factory to a farm in Ha Tinh Province.

The Centre of Biodiversity Conservation (GreenViet), in co-operation with US-based San Diego Zoo Global and the management board of Bà Nà-Núi Chúa Nature Reserve has begun a wildlife supervision programme.

Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung has requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to co-operate with authorities of Ha Tinh Province in the inspection of the dumping of waste by the steel plant of Formosa.

China is building another 200 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power capacity despite tough new measures designed to cut the use of fossil fuels and tackle overcapacity, environmental group Greenpeace said on Wednesday.

Nearly a half of the Mekong Delta region would be badly hit by saltwater intrusion within the next 14 years.

Cycling machines attached to a water filtration system have been installed on the bank of a canal in HCM City. These have not only helped local people to do their exercise, but also keep the canal clean.

Local authorities, enterprises and communities in northern Quang Ninh province and Hai Phong city must strengthen cooperation to protect the environment in Ha Long Bay.

The impact of climate change and a rise in sea levels has accelerated the erosion of sea dykes in the Mekong Delta, with the southernmost province of Ca Mau being the most vulnerable.

HCM City will relocate 1,210 households in areas prone to land erosion by rivers and canals under a larger resettlement plan that will be carried out until 2020.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has ordered an urgent inspection of A Cuong Minerals JSC which is accused of discharging untreated waste water into Cam Dan River in Bac Giang Province.

Director of the Institute of Oceanography, Vo Si Tuan, talks about possible measures to restore the marine ecosystem in four central provinces that have been affected by the mass fish deaths.

TRAFFIC has launched the second phase of its Chí (Strength of Will) initiative, with updated messages and images that continue its mission to instill a zero-tolerance attitude towards rhino-horn consumption.

Strong winds and downpours are forecast to batter waters off the coasts from Vietnam’s central province of Binh Thuan to the southernmost province of Ca Mau, due to effects of super typhoon Nepartak, which is rolling in northeast off

Seaweed has been found dead along one hundred of metre of coastal line in the central province of Quang Binh’s Quang Trach District.

The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, while studying the causes of the recent mass fish deaths in the four central provinces, have highlighted images that show the destruction wrought by the pollution.