Environment

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.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Minh Quang has just returned from a six day visit to Cuba where he joined representatives from over 60 countries around the globe attending an international environmental conference.

Chiang Mai is experiencing the worst drought crisis in two decades, with dams expected to last until August.

A baby giraffe has just been born at a private zoo in southern Binh Duong Province.

Indonesian police posing as wildlife buyers have arrested a suspected trafficker for selling protected eagles on Facebook, an official said Wednesday.

A seminar on urban green growth in Hanoi advocated for more awareness among investors and policymakers.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to the Prime Minister to raise forest environment service fees on companies producing drinking water and hydroelectricity.

Tropical storm Egay has brought flooding, stranded passengers in several ports, cut power supply, and caused the canceling of domestic flights in the Philippines.