Environment

Over 2 million households in Ho Chi Minh City joined a family electricity saving programme from 2013 to 2015, helping save about 1.35 billion kWh of electricity, announced the city’s steering committee for power supply and savings on January 26.

Viet Nam's geographic location near several fault lines puts it at risk for moderate to severe earthquakes, according to seismologists.

Blistering heat blanketed the Earth last year like never before, making 2015 by far the hottest year in modern times and raising new concerns about the accelerating pace of climate change.

The northern and north central region is likely to have cold weather during the Lunar New Year holiday while fair weather is forecast for the southern region, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said.

An official from Nam Dinh Province has defended the decision to allow local people to butcher the corpse of a whale that died in the province.

While the amount of ash discharged by coal-fired power plants has increased in Vietnam, the country still lacks guidance and policies to support enterprises in managing this waste, experts said.

Vietnam declared to host the third International Wildlife Trade Conference in Hanoi this November.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have just signed a decision to establish a 7,900ha sea reserve off the coast of Ly Son island and Binh Chau commune.

Thousands of ha have been destroyed and nearly 15 thousand ha are facing saline intrusion, according to Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper.

The War on Pangolin Crime campaign has been launched by the Education for Nature-Vietnam as an urgent response to protect the species from massive and unabated exploitation to meet demand from consumers in Vietnam and China.

Vietnam may face difficulties in power generation this dry season as El Nino has led to reservoirs running out of water in the central regions, the Vietnamese Group of Electricity said.

Nha Trang Sao JSC has been fined VND200m (USD9,500) for illegally encroaching on waters of Nha Trang Bay and violating environmental regulations.

The impact of El Nino in 2016 will likely surpass last year's record to become strongest ever in history, according to experts.

More than 220 people died or went missing, while damage totaled 660 million USD a year due to unseasonal rains, landslides, erosion, whirlwinds and lightning between 2011 and 2015.

The head of a forest ranger unit in the central province of Nghe An said he had summoned a man for questioning who shared photos of how he slaughtered monkeys on Facebook.

Dong Nai People's Committee yesterday disapproved the construction of a road that would cut through Cat Tien National Park, at a meeting with concerned departments and park officials.

Farmers are illegally growing genetically modified corn in China's northeast, said environmental non-profit Greenpeace, in a report that may generate further distrust of the government's ability to ensure a safe food supply.

Hundreds of fish farmers have lost billions of VND following a mass death of fish, which locals suspect is due to water pollution in the Dong Nai River.

With its alleged medicinal properties, rhino horn has the allure of a luxury item in Vietnam, a primary market for horn that’s driving the slaughter of rhinos around the globe.