Environment

Seventy per cent of air pollution in Ha Noi is created by the endless streams of traffic, the Centre for Environmental Monitoring has reported.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai requested capital to disaster mitigation projects be prioritised while chairing a teleconference in Hanoi on September 14.

The central province plans to create a 7,900ha sea reserve off the coast of Ly Son island and Binh Chau commune before awarding it Global Geopark status.

Climate change and a reduction in sediment supply and river discharge along the Thu Bon River are the primary causes of coastal erosion in the central region, particularly Cua Dai Beach in Hoi An, speakers said at an international

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has asked agencies to curb deforestation which has wiped out 9,000 hectares of forest in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong.

The Da Nang government and the UK embassy held a workshop on September 9 to launch a project aimed at reducing greenhouse emissions using a tool called Calculator 2050.

Thirty-five experts from environmental organisations in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam gathered yesterday to discuss water management and the effects of hydropower dams.

Farmers in Vung Tau City have dump thousands of dead fish outside local factories they maintain killed them by discharging untreated waste.

Deforestation is on the rise in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong's Dak Song District.

A conference was held in Hanoi on September 4 to introduce a project to build an urban climate change resilience index in Vietnam.

Police in Tay Ninh Province has fined a local private hospital VND1.4 billion for burying tonnes of medical waste in the area.

The current El Nino weather phenomenon is expected peak between October and January and could turn into one of the strongest on record, experts from the World Meteorological Organization said at a news conference on Tuesday.

The 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment is scheduled to take place in Hanoi from October 26 to 30, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Chinese border patrol officials seized 620 wild turtles and tortoises — 510 of them considered endangered — that were found alive in a shipment of frozen seafood from Vietnam, state media said Sunday.

The municipal and provincial Steering Committees for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control have been urged to closely monitor the development of calamities such as flood, flashflood, and landslide.

The People’s Committee of Hanoi inaugurated and put the Phuong Dinh waste treatment plant into operation in Dan Phuong district.

Many residents in Quang Nam Province protested against a firm they believe is extracting sand from the local area without regard to the environmental damage.

The Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park in the central Quang Binh Province has received a northern pig-tailed macaque.

A working group of the Ministry of Health and the World Bank (WB) had a discussion with authority of central Quang Ngai province on August 25 on the development of a solid hazardous medical waste treatment project in the locality.