Environment

Vietnam expects to receive USD248 million of aid to its efforts to adapt to climate change this years, as all major international donors have now joined the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change.

Representatives from non-governmental organisations and Vietnamese journalists reached an agreement for better communication on climate change.

Vietnam is among the countries that do the least to crack down on an illegal trade in animal parts, the WWF group said.

Pollution was spreading in the Dong Nai River Basin, the main source of water for 16 million people living in the area, including HCM City.

Tropical storm Vicente is moving in the East Sea towards Southern China and will likely enter the Tonkin Gulf tomorrow, Vietnam’s Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Center reported.

A lot of well-known tourism sites throughout the country have become vast dumping grounds.

The Prime Minister has approved an urgent action plan through 2020 to save the elephant population in Vietnam.

Steps are being taken to shift a polluting coal plant in the centre of Ha Long City to a new site seven kilometres away.

Customs officials at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City have seized a large haul of ivory worth an estimated $218,000 from two Vietnamese passengers.

Pollution was spreading in the Dong Nai River Basin, the main source of water for 16 million people living in the area, said an official from the Vietnam Institute for Tropical Technology and Environmental Protection.

Every Vietnamese person discharges one kilo of electronic waste every year. The waste could be a “mountain of gold” if Vietnam can exploit it.

A student of the HCM City Foreign Trade University has made a handbook of green tips for housewives, becoming one of eight students nationwide recognised as Bayer environmental ambassadors this year

Quang Nam has approved a proposal to build a 15,800-hectare natural reserve for the saola, or 'Asian unicorn'.

More than 500 penguins have been found dead on beaches of Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state, authorities said Friday.

The United States Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties and 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster in America ever.

The capital city plans to spend more than VND116 trillion ($5.5 billion) for upgrading its urban drainage system.

Hanoi aims to put an end to flooding in the city’s centre by 2015.

Severe droughts and floods rocked the world as greenhouse gas levels climbed, boosting the odds of some extreme weather events, scientists said.

Warnings have been repeatedly given to the government of Vietnam over the last many years, after scientists realised the harsh impacts of humans on the special-use forests nationwide.