Environment

Around 200 polluted lakes in Hanoi will be treated with a special substance imported from Germany, said Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Limited Company.

Vietnamese customs officials on October 1 seized 309 kilograms of ivory concealed in a shipment declared to contain glass that arrived at Noi Bai International Airport two days earlier.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment has given 21 manufacturing facilities in District 12 until year-end to move out of the city.

Many localities nationwide experienced environmental degradation during the 2011-2015 period, according to a report released by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) in Hanoi on September 29.

Big cities like Hanoi and HCM City and localities home to many industrial production activities such as Viet Tri still face high air pollution.

Two bears which were illegally held in captivity in An Giang Province have been sent to a rescue centre, making An Giang the next locality in Vietnam to officially put an end to bear farming.

Vo Van Hoan, chief of office at the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has confirmed that the foul odour affecting several districts since late August comes from the Da Phuoc Waste Treatment Complex.

An international seminar on the development of eco-industrial zones in Vietnam was held by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI), in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), in Hoi An City, the central province of

A group of students in Hanoi are cleaning up the city by replacing rubbish dumps with flowers and plants.

Some call it "ivory on wings," part of the bill of a critically endangered bird in Southeast Asia that is sought by poachers and carved into ornaments for illegal sale to Chinese buyers.

Vietnam was one of the most vulnerable countries to rising sea levels, said former prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vietnam has succeeded in cutting the demand for rhino horn, with a reduction of 38 per cent over the past three years, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hà Công Tuấn told a gathering of 182 states at

The EU Delegation to VN and embassies of some EU countries held a press conference on climate change in Hanoi on Wednesday. The event was part of the European Climate Diplomacy Week in the country from September 19-25.

Dozens of households in Hanoi's Hai Ba Trung District could be lost due to river erosion following August’s Typhoon Dianmu.

The Education for Nature-Vietnam group has called on member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to vote against Swaziland’s proposal to legalise the rhino horn trade.

Hanoi Forest Ranger Unit has rescued and transferred an Asian black bear illegally kept in Phuc Tho District to the city animal rescue centre on September 22.

After the European Union (EU) Climate Diplomacy Day in 2014 and 2015, the EU is dedicating a whole week to the issue of climate change in 2016. Diplomatic missions from the EU and its Member States around the world

The large-spotted civet species recently discovered in the Phong Dien Nature Reserve in Hue city was previously considered to be extinct in Vietnam and China by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The Vietnam Administration of Forestry has proposed a USD896m sustainable development plan to protect, restore and develop the forest in the Central Highlands.