Environment

The Asian Development Bank has selected the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue to benefit from its technical assistance project offering disaster risk financing solutions to cope with climate change.

Palaeontologists in Utah on Wednesday said they had found the fossil of a strange horned dinosaur which roamed an island continent known as Laramidia.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Tuesday announced the country's divisive fixed-price carbon tax will be scrapped a year ahead of schedule in favour of a market-driven emissions trading scheme.

The capital city of Hanoi is stepping up a drive to phase out the use of nylon bag as it is harming both environment and human health.

Pollution from a porcelain factory has raised concerns among residents in the northern province of Phu Tho's Phu Tho Town.

Vietnam will strengthen cooperation with its partners in the Upper Mekong River region to protect and use water resources sustainably.

Norway will provide Vietnam with nearly VND10 billion (US$476,000) to conduct a four-year project to reduce the impacts of climate change on rice production.

Residents close to an industrial park in northern Phu Tho Province have to wear face masks when they go to sleep to keep the stink of deadly waste-water out of their nostrils.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has ordered localities to save forests by planting 150,500 hectares of trees nationwide and preventing illegal deforestation.

Cat Tien National Park has just taken over 10,000 hectares of forests from a private firm, one official has said.

Damming the mainstream of the lower Mekong River will represent a significant new threat to the survival of the Mekong giant catfish, one of the world's largest and rarest freshwater fishes, according to a new study commissioned by the

Residents of a luxury apartment building in Nghe An Province complained about environmental pollution, mostly caused by Big C Supermarket Vinh.

The Prime Minister has approved a project to manage medical waste, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the World Bank (WB)

Five dead crocodiles, 14 critically endangered turtles and a cache of other rare species have been found in the home of a suspected wildlife trader in one of the Philippines' biggest slums, the government said Friday.

A number of international commitments have been made over recent decades, hoping to address the increasing prominence of global environmental issues.

Pollution in the Dong Nai River, mostly from thousands of factories, continues to affect the water supply to residents and farmland in HCM City and surrounding provinces.

South Africa said Wednesday it would lobby to relax a ban on international trade in rhino horn to allow a one-off sale of stockpiles to address a poaching bloodbath.

HCM City has earmarked VND70.54 trillion ($3.3 billion) for 36 projects to mitigate the effects of climate change, which is expected to severely affect the city.

A freshwater shrimp, an island-dwelling lizard and a pupfish from Arizona have been declared extinct, while nearly 21,000 species are at risk of dying out, an updated "Red List" showed.