Environment

A fund has been established, called "One Million Trees for Vietnam", that has gone to plant 40,000 trees around several historical sites at Dien Bien Phu.

HCM City authorities have announced a list of polluting companies and ordered the perpetrators to clean up their act by next year.

Authorities of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong are close to completing their report on the Lang Biang biosphere reserve to be submitted to UNESCO for recognition this September.

The HCM City People’s Procuracy has recently appealed against the verdict of two years probation handed to a rhino horn trafficker, asking for a stiffer sentence.

The Mekong Delta must come up with ways to address the consequences of climate change, especially rising sea levels and salinity intrusion, delegates said at a recent workshop in Hanoi.

In a bid to protect wild animals, private businesses are teaming up with Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV), a non-governmental organization, to promote the conservation of nature and the environment.

A female bear, weighing 150 kilograms, was shifted from the Central Highland Dak Lak Province to the Tam Dao Bear Rescue Centre in the northern Vinh Phuc Province on July 30.

Japan announced Tuesday that it had wrapped up a whale hunt in the Pacific, the second campaign since the UN's top court ordered Tokyo to halt a separate slaughter in the Antarctic.

Customs officials have arrested a Chinese woman and a Vietnamese man at Suvarnabhumi Airport after they allegedly tried to smuggle out elephant tusks and ivory products worth about BAT9 million.

The Japanese Government on July 28 approved a grant of nearly VND13.5 billion in non-refundable aid to central Thua Thien Hue province for the second phase of a disaster risk mitigation and adaptation project.

Residents in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa have been suffering from high levels of pollution caused by hundreds of unregistered manufacturers operating in populated areas, according to the Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper.

A climate change adaptation project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) kicked off in Tra Vinh province on July 25.

The population of large flying foxes (Pteropus vampyrus) living in the southern Ca Mau Province is facing depletion in its numbers.

The southern Delta Aquarid meteor shower with radiants reaching a zenithal hourly rate or ZHR of 20 will make its appearance over the skies of Vietnam in late July.

Another Asiatic black bear was recently recorded by one of the camera traps installed in central Quang Nam Province by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Thousands of people in Thanh Hoa Province have been forced to live in a polluted environment caused by a large landfill that has been operating there for ten years.

Vietnam's ever increasing demand is driving the development of renewable energy to help ensure the nation's energy security, while protecting the environment.

How to develop forest sustainably, adapt and reduce the impacts of climate change was discussed at a forum held in the central highland province of Lam Dong on July 18.

The Hai Phong Environment Protection Fund (HEPF) was officially put into operation on July 16 as part of efforts to build Hai Phong into a green, civilised and modern port city.