Environment

A silver pheasant listed as rare and threatened in Vietnam by the International Union for Conservation of Nature has been spotted in a forest in central Quang Binh Province.

Hanoi authorities have installed aquatic rafts on To Lich River to help revive one of the most polluted rivers in the country.

Climate negotiators salvaged a compromise deal in Lima early Sunday that sets the stage for a global pact in Paris next year, but rejected a rigorous review of the greenhouse gas emissions limits they plan.

On December 13, the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) co-organized the 4th ASEAN Chief Justices’ Roundtable on the role of the judiciary in environment protection.

Environment police in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District have cracked a wildlife slaughter ring that was supplying restaurants with illicit meat.

The Prime Minister has approved a scheme to better protect natural forests for the 2014-2020 period, with a view to improving their coverage quality and meeting domestic demand for timber.

Townships along the Mekong River should suspend the construction of dams, which negatively impacts both the environment and residents near the river's lower basin, said experts at a seminar on the construction of the Don Sahong hydropower plant.

Authorities in HCM City have vowed to contain four-fifths of the city's flood zones by next year.

The task was never going to be easy: Fly four highly endangered rhinos from a Czech Republic zoo to East Africa, drive them to the savannah grasses of Mount Kenya and hope that the natural environment helps produce a

The Wild Animal Rescue Centre of Pu Mat National Park in the central province of Nghe An has just handed over two Indochinese tigers to the Hanoi Centre for Wild Animal Rescue and Forest Protection.

A man in Thanh Hoa Province has raised at least 10 tigers without any proper actions being taken by local authorities.

Vietnam has taken the first step toward valuing its stores of natural resources – called its natural capital - a Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment representative said.

A super typhoon heading toward the Philippines gathered strength, though forecasters say it is too far out in the Pacific Ocean to predict the direct path of landfall expected this weekend.

The World Bank is funding a rural development project to help the Mekong Delta of Vietnam improve its climate change resilience.

The PM is taking important steps to cut carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases in Vietnam and throughout ASEAN.

Vietnamese scientists of the HCM City-based Southern Institute of Ecology have discovered four new camellia species in Vietnam.

Climate change is raising the threat of red-tail vipers as they are forced down from their natural tree habitats in provinces in central Vietnam in search of food, experts said.

Providing rescue and support services to livestock can help save the lives of both animals and people, and help populations recover more quickly afterwards.

In Peru, where two weeks of U.N. climate talks begin Monday, melting glaciers and more extreme weather such as hot spells and flash frosts are already harming crops and incomes, and keeping people in poverty, aid workers say.