Environment

Ongoing urban expansion and growth in the capital has necessitated the diversification of water sources from its long-term sole dependence on underground water.

The World Bank will lend Vietnam US$50 million to build waste water treatment plants and improve environmental policies in industrial zones in four provinces of Vietnam.

A tropical storm named Son Tinh has entered the East Sea and is forecast to gain strength in the coming hours.

The municipal authorities of Hanoi issued the Renewable Energy Development Program to boost the application of advanced technologies in exploiting renewable energies.

More than 90% of the medical waste from hospitals in HCMC is treated before discharging into the environment, said director of the local Department of Health.

Environmental experts have called for an end to forest wood exploitation in Vietnam after it emerged that 2012 plans for tree regeneration will fall well short of targets.

People now have to pay a heavy price for titanium ores. Schools, roads and jobs have been exchanged for seriously polluting the environment.

Asia's fast economic growth has increased the region's vulnerability to natural disasters, with new developments springing up in catastrophe-prone areas, the UN warned on Tuesday.

Australia said it was searching for a new aircraft landing site for planes supplying its three bases in Antarctica because the current runway is melting.

People have complained that Phu Yen Urban Environmental Hygiene Company has polluted the Cay Sanh stream in the area.

Environmentalists have expressed their concern about the fates of natural reserves, saying that the reserves have not been preserved for the purpose of biodiversity conservation.

A programme to curb pollution from insecticide residues by targeting 100 hot spots throughout the nation will cost VND1.01 trillion ($48.4 million).

Soil has been excavated everywhere in Phu Tho province, causing serious environment pollution and landslide, thus harming local people’s lives.

Negotiators sought to persuade wealthy nations to bankroll ambitious targets for stemming the loss of Earth's dwindling natural resources.

The Tuyen Lam Lake tourist site in the romantic city of Da Lat has been rescued--with a solution which has been found to treat the waste water of the lake.

The PM has approved the National Action Plan on Climate Change for the period 2012-2020, which states that Vietnam is one of the countries that will be affected negatively by climate change.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new five year programmes to help Vietnam address the impacts of climate change.

Over 70 environment ministers meet in India for key talks on halting the depletion of Earth's natural resources, under pressure to put up money to match their political pledges.

Environmental experts have called on Vietnam to make further efforts in providing economic incentives and better policies to promote "greener" buildings.