Environment

Fishermen in Ha Tinh Province have started receiving the compensation for the mass fish deaths in the central region caused by Taiwanese Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation.

Almost one in seven children worldwide live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, and their growing bodies are most vulnerable to damage, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Monday.

Việt Nam has identified over 1,080 species of marine fish, including many highly economically valuable creatures such as the skipjack tuna, Japanese horse mackerel, yellowtail scad, largehead hairtail (or beltfish), ariid catfish, among others.

The world's whaling watchdog moved Thursday to curtail Japan's annual whale hunt, conducted under scientific licence but blasted by critics as a commercial meat haul.

Việt Nam will lose nearly 39 per cent of the total area of Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta – the biggest rice granary of the country if the sea level rises 100cm by the end of the century.

Thousands of fish have been found dead in Hanoi’s Linh Dam Lake since October 26.

HCM City Police has seized one tonne of ivory smuggled from Africa at Cat Lai Port after discovering over two tonnes of smuggled ivory earlier this month.

Phu Quoc Island, one of the popular tourist attractions of Vietnam, is facing the danger of becoming overloaded with waste as the island struggles to process half the daily amount produced.

Vietnam and Thailand will work closely with each other and with international organisations to use and manage Mekong river water resources efficiently to ensure interests of the river basin nations.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan for solid waste management in key economic zones in the north until 2030.

Hanoi has approved Department of Transport's proposal to suspend the operation of restaurant boats on the West Lake for hygienic reasons.

HCM City Police is investigating into two smuggling cases of over two tonnes of ivory from Africa to Cat Lai Port.

HCM City has begun the second phase of an environmental sanitation project at a cost of more than US$524 million, city authorities announced.

Up to 27 projects of seven State corporations are listed in the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s directive as being liable to cause environmental pollution.

Around 500 kilos of ivory and pangolin scales imported from Africa were detected by customs authorities at Cat Lai Port in HCM City.

The United States Agency for International Development announced a new project that will assist Vietnam’s transition to climate-smart and low-emission development through improved forest protection, enhanced biodiversity conservation, and increased resilience of communities.

The ancient city of Hội An and its twin town Wernigerode in Germany will start construction of a solar power system project for the old quarter of the city.

Việt Nam and the United States marked the start of the second and final phase of thermal treatments at the Đà Nẵng Airport yesterday to clean up dioxin contamination caused by US forces more than 40 years ago.

Construction of a centre for natural resources conservation and fauna and flora rescue has begun in Thua Thien-Hue, a central province with rich biodiversity.