Environment

Thousands hectares of forest in Kon Tum Province are facing extinction as the local authorities are determined to construct a road that seems of little benefit to travellers.

Drought and saline intrusion in south central coast, central highlands and southern provinces have caused damage worth nearly 8.9 trillion VND (400 million USD) as of May 6, according to the Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

A diving group sent by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment said they found no layers of dead fish on the seabed in Quang Binh Province as reported by local fishermen.

More than 17 tonnes of fish raised in cages in the northern Thanh Hóa Province’s Thạch Thành District have died due to contaminated water, Voice of Vietnam reported yesterday.

The authorities in Yen Hoa Ward of Hanoi's Cau Giay District have had to set up a fence to prevent local people from throwing rubbish into an already heavily polluted canal.

Authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue verified the safety level of seawater near the shore on May 6 following a recent test.

More inspections have been carried out at the waste treatment activities and the imported toxic substances at the Taiwanese-owned Formosa steel complex following the mass fish deaths along the central coast since early April.

Fishermen in a commune in the central province of Quang Binh where has been affected by the mass fish death said that they had found layers of dead fish in the local seabed.

The Prime Minister has approved the “Mekong Delta Integrated Climate Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Project” using the World Bank’s loan.

Heavy metals founds within seafood samples taken from Ha Tinh and Quang Tri which were affected by mass fish deaths are within the permitted levels, health authorities have claimed.

Environment officials of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand convened the 18th meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee (MSC) on Transboundary Haze Pollution in Singapore.

French Ambassador to Vietnam, Jean-Noel Poirier, talked about Hanoi’s worsening air quality and an agreement on the supplies of French air quality measurement systems to the city.

US Ambassador Ted Osius and Senior Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chí Vịnh, the deputy minister of Defence, announced the successful treatment of dioxin-contaminated soil at Đà Nẵng International Airport.

Scientists from Germany, Israel and the US have arrived in Vietnam to help local authorities investigate the cause of mass fish deaths in the central region.

As young boys plunge into a murky dam to escape the blistering afternoon sun, guards armed with guns stand vigil at one of the few remaining water bodies in a state hit hard by India’s crippling drought.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment yesterday claimed the waters off four central coastal provinces was now safe, following the mass fish deaths last week.

Many farmers in the Mekong Delta provinces have switched from growing rice to drought-resistant crops to cope with the region’s worst drought in 100 years.

The Government’s national power development plan that calls for a higher proportion of power generation from renewable energy by 2030, including water, wind, solar and biomass, has not met its targets or the country’s potential.

Divers who worked in contaminated water in Ha Tinh Province will have health checks in Hue City after the death of co-worker.