Environment

Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for 1 in 6 premature deaths in the world's most populous country, a new study finds.

Police in Hanoi and Danang have seized one tonne of elephant tusks and rhino horn smuggled into Vietnam from Africa.

A four-day training course is taking place in Da Lat city in central Lam Dong province through August 14 to boost law enforcement activities of forest rangers while fighting wildlife crime.

Encroachment by the sea has caused soil erosion, threatening residential areas and crops in the coastal Go Cong area in the southern Tien Giang Province.

A rare white Bengal tiger imported from a Canadian zoo have given birth to 3 white cubs at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in HCM City.

Environmentalists warn recent prolonged flooding in Quang Ninh Province has washed tonnes of coal dust and metal into Halong Bay, threatening its fragile ecosystem.

Authorities in the northern Ha Giang Province have just announced a plan to open a new nature reserve area in the province's Meo Vac District.

The World Bank has supported a project to build a medical waste treatment area with a total cost of VND120 billion (US$5.4 million) in the central province of Quang Ngai, health officials said.

The central province of Quang Ngai passed a project on August 7 to turn Ly Son Island into a sea preservation zone in an effort to develop the island sustainably.

China, which is accused of fuelling the trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, on Thursday pledged equipment worth $2 million to curb poaching in Zimbabwe.

Vietnam has joined hands with the international community to protect and develop forests through an initiative to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation while fostering conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks.

Despite more than 40 years of environmental management in the ASEAN region, degradation of the environment continues, affecting the most vulnerable populations, a senior policy advisor for the Institute for Global Environment Strategies said yesterday at a climate-change forum

US President Barack Obama will on Monday unveil what he called the "biggest, most important step we've ever taken" to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy.

Northern Vietnam is bracing for torrential rain from July 31 to August 4, likely to bring flooding in many localities.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and US Agency for International Development have signed a letter of intent to cooperate in cutting harmful carbon emissions.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit have signed the implementation agreements for two new technical cooperation programmes.

Thermal power plants are under much pressure as they seek to resolve environmental issues that are plaguing them.

Around 358,350 households in HCM City, or nearly one million people, are still using unsafe water, said a local official.

The Vietnam Museum of Nature has assessed and verified the fossil of a big sea snail dating back 247.2 to 242 million years. It was discovered in the central province of Nghe An.