Environment

Ho Chi Minh City Vice Chairman Tran Vinh Tuyen said the authorities show an aggressive approach to illegal encroachment of thousands of households along canals to deal with the city’s flooding problem.

The ASEM Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management officially opened in the central city of Da Nang on September 14.

Experts from Animals Asia’s Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Đảo National Park have rescued an Asian black bear and two monkeys from Buôn Ma Thuột City in the central highlands province of Đắk Lắk.

The border guard force of the central province of Nghe An has detained a ship found to have discharged suspect toxic waste into the sea.

Up to 47.5 tonnes of fish raised in floating cages in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa's Tinh Gia District have been found dead, causing major losses for local farmers.

Formosa Ha Tinh has been requested to build ponds for waste treatment in its site and only when fish in these ponds can live will the firm be allowed to discharge waste into the sea.

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.