Environment

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.

Customs officials at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport seized a Vietnamese man illegally transporting 21 kilograms of African elephant ivory tusk products into the country on June 30.

The 2013 Trans-Vietnam Cycling programme will begin on July 4 to raise public awareness of traffic safety and marine environmental protection.

A new species of bird with a distinctive orange-red coloured tuft of feathers on its head has been found in Cambodia's populous capital city, conservationists said on Wednesday.

Domestic energy scientists and experts have received training in carbon management-related issues at a two-day seminar which closed on June 25 in Hanoi.

Many firms in southern Dong Nai Province found to be releasing toxic waste into the environment will have their permits withdrawn by the end of the year.

The Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Vietnam has called on all its staff to protect wildlife.

Fires on Indonesia's Sumatra, which have cloaked Singapore in record-breaking smog, are raging on palm oil plantations owned by Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean companies, environmental activist group Greenpeace International said.

Vietnam should consider climate change mitigation an opportunity to swiftly embrace a low-carbon economy and protect the environment.

HCM City authorities have asked neighbouring Dong Nai Province to relocate the Bien Hoa Industrial Park No 1 to better protect the water resources of HCM City's nearly 10 million residents.

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term.

Ca Mau province is facing a serious depression due to underground water exploitation and deforestation.

Vietnam should participate in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Use of International Watercourses, said experts.

A local man caught a critically-endangered 63kg Mekong catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) early yesterday morning while fishing in the Tien River in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Dong Thap.

Developing countries, including Vietnam need to attract more finance to mitigate the impact of climate change, an expert said.

Hanoi hosted a seminar on June 13 to review the Vietnam Provincial Environmental Governance project - considered the highlight of Vietnam-Canada cooperative relations.