Environment

A ceremony was held in the central city of Thua Thien-Hue on June 5 to mark the World Environment Day.

UNESCO has refused to recognise Cat Tien National Park as a world natural heritage site due to its failure to meet the organisation’s requirements.

The awards ceremony for a student photo contest portraying environmental issues granted 11 prizes for best works.

Northern provinces will have 3-4 medium and heavy rains and 2-3 hot spells in June.

A waste water treatment plant with a treatment capacity of 17,650 cubic metres per day has been opened in the southern province of Binh Duong.

Local authorities in Ha Tinh Province have remained powerless as dozens of local households destroyed nearly 200 hectares of forest for farming.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung delivered a speech to open the second Ministerial Meeting of the Conference of Parties on the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response in Hanoi.

Forestry officials are working to prevent illegal logging hotspots in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai by raising the role of citizens.

A170-kilogram tiger illegally kept by a family in Nghe An Province has just been transferred to a rescue centre in Hanoi.

The forests along the Vietnam-Laos border were once home to many wild elephants. But today, barely 100 remain.

An official development assistance loan for the second phase of the Forestry Management Information System (FORMIS II) development project was signed in Hanoi on May 24.

This year’s International Day for Biological Diversity with the theme “Water and Biodiversity” was celebrated in Hanoi on May 22, highlighting the roles biological diversity and eco-systems play in water security and sustainable development.

A whale weighing around one tonne caught in a net offshore the central province of Quang Binh was rescued and safely released back to the sea on May 22.

The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has freshly approved a funding of 208 billion VND to preserve and develop Tram Chim National Park sustainably in 2013-2020.

More than 5kg of rhino horns were seized by customs officers at Tan Son Nhat Airport yesterday while being smuggled into Vietnam.

A shortage of clean water has hit residents in many of Hanoi's suburban districts, leaving them no choice but to spend over the odds on water or resort to using stagnant pond water.

The second Asia-Pacific Water Summit opened on May 19 in Chiang Mai province, Thailand , to seek answers to the world's drought, flood and wastewater problems.

Hanoi is getting hotter during the summers and experts have blamed the situation on the city's bad planning that prioritises concrete structures.

The trees that have earned Da Lat City the name 'city of a thousand pines' have been fast disappearing under the strains of urbanisation.