Environment

Vietnam has joined hands with the international community to protect and develop forests through an initiative to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation while fostering conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks.

Despite more than 40 years of environmental management in the ASEAN region, degradation of the environment continues, affecting the most vulnerable populations, a senior policy advisor for the Institute for Global Environment Strategies said yesterday at a climate-change forum

US President Barack Obama will on Monday unveil what he called the "biggest, most important step we've ever taken" to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy.

Northern Vietnam is bracing for torrential rain from July 31 to August 4, likely to bring flooding in many localities.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and US Agency for International Development have signed a letter of intent to cooperate in cutting harmful carbon emissions.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit have signed the implementation agreements for two new technical cooperation programmes.

Thermal power plants are under much pressure as they seek to resolve environmental issues that are plaguing them.

Around 358,350 households in HCM City, or nearly one million people, are still using unsafe water, said a local official.

The Vietnam Museum of Nature has assessed and verified the fossil of a big sea snail dating back 247.2 to 242 million years. It was discovered in the central province of Nghe An.

Vietnam plans to start a new scheme to monitor environmental resources to prevent natural disasters, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has said.

The Con Dao National Park in the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province has released about 150,000 baby tortoises into the sea since 1994.

French actress Brigitte Bardot has condemned an Australian plan to cull two million feral cats to stop them harming native animals, a proposal animal rights groups said Wednesday was unlikely to be successful.

Farmers and households have been left without fresh water in many areas in the Mekong Delta this year because of severe saline intrusion.

Vietnam’s forests are increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, forest degradation, fragmentation and other stresses – making them more vulnerable to changing environmental conditions.

Hanoi's West Lake is being severely polluted from domestic garbage and untreated waste discharged from restaurant boats.

The Binh Thuan Province administration has instructed officials to resolve the environmental issues plaguing the Vinh Tan No 2 thermal power plant following local protests against its discharge of untreated waste.

Sea water has been progressively intruding into rice fields in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, severely impacting hundreds of hectares of rice and vegetable crops.

For nearly a half of century, households in Nong Cong district's Cong Binh commune in the central province of Thanh Hoa have had to use water contaminated with petroleum.

Ten endangered Asiatic lions, 1670 blue bulls and 87 spotted deer were amongst hundreds of wild animals killed in the recent floods to hit west India's Gujarat, a government report said Sunday.