Environment

Close co-ordination between agencies is needed to safely manage PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) in Vietnam, according to officials yesterday at a meeting in Hanoi.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is planning to remove the eastern cougar from the endangered species list after determining the subspecies has likely been extinct for 70 years.

Vietnam wants to cooperate with international organisations and countries worldwide to preserve endangered wildlife animals, including pangolins which are on the brink of extinction due to illegal hunting and trading for meat and scales.

Warnings have been raised over Hanoi's river system, which has been severely polluted by untreated sewage, industrial waste and garbage, despite the efforts of authorities to improve the situation.

The central province of Nghe An’s People’s Committee has for the first time announced a state of emergency across the province due to prolonged severe drought occurring in the locality during the summer-autumn crop 2015.

The US Embassy in Hanoi and Freeland Foundation will launch a contest to highlight wildlife trafficking and rhino horn use in Vietnam at Hanoi Cinematheque on June 22.

Vietnam suffered from a shortage of clean water, polluted air and untreated garbage and waste.

Black-as-coal and smelling of something rank, the Nhue river snakes its way through the middle of Van Hoang Commune, Phu Xuyen District in Ha Noi. The polluted river is likely more than just an eyesore.

Residents in Ninh An Commune, Khanh Hoa Province are complaining a waste treatment factory is burning hazardous solid waste, which is polluting the environment.

Newly cleaned and dredged canals around HCM City are quickly being re-polluted by locals who dump waste directly into them.

Cleaner air worldwide would save two million lives a year and not only in the most polluted countries, a study found.

A plan to redesign the Sai Gon Zoo and Botanical Gardens by has been approved by the zoo management and will next be submitted to the HCM City Department of Urban Planning and Architecture.

Nearly 700 new polluters have been identified in HCM City, according to figures released by the city Department of Mineral Resources and Environment at a meeting with the city People's Council last week.

The first eco-plastic plant in Vietnam will be built in the Mekong Delta province of Long An, said Nguyen Hoang Duy, Head of Vietnam Plastic House Co Ltd, on Wednesday.

A severe drought, believed to have begun last year, was likely to continue till the middle of September throughout central Vietnam, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) reported.

Farmers in the drought-hit central southern province of Binh Dinh have abandoned thousands of hectares of ruined paddy and are feeding the dead plants to their cows.

A master plan to conserve the environment and build infrastructure in Quang Binh Province's Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park by 2030 has just been announced in Dong Hoi City.

Eighteen months after being a severe drought, the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan yesterday declared a state of emergency, for the first time in its history.

Smoke from burning stacks of straw and waste in fields on the outskirts of Hanoi occurs annually, causing risks to people's health and traffic safety after every rice harvest.