Environment

The Vietnamese Government has paid great effort to improve environment improvement capacity and the quality of life for citizens.

Japan and Greater Mekong Sub-region countries have agreed to step up cooperation in improving urban environment in the Mekong region while continuing to pursue their economic growth targets.

The World Bank (WB)’s Board of Executive Directors on December 24 approved US$450 million in loans and credits to Second Ho Chi Minh City Environmental Sanitation Project.

Reservoir maintenance, water resource management and natural calamity mitigation were discussed by Japanese and domestic experts at a workshop on irrigation system management on December 23 in Hanoi.

Integration of climate-change adaption strategies into policy development, especially at the community level, is needed to cope with weather changes in Vietnam's coastal areas, speakers urged at a workshop held in Can Gio last week.

The project 'Biogas system from leftovers and vegetable growing from landfill biogas' by Thuy Ngoc Phong and Tran Van Tuyen from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education (HCMUTE) won the first prize at the 'Youth with

A fisherman in central Thua Thien - Hue Province caught a rare green sea turtle on Wednesday.

Farmers in Lao Cai are bracing in earnest for winter after a sharp drop in temperature killed livestock and threatens to destroy winter crops.

The Deputy General Director of the Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change summed up the outcome of the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as well as anyone.

A growing number of incidents involving elephants pushing back against human encroachment on their natural habitat has prompted the MoPI to step up a monitoring programme to limit conflict.

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