Environment

Many ethnic households in the northern mountainous Lai Chau Province's Ban Giang Commune have accused a farm owner of illegally exploiting minerals, which has polluted the environment and damaged crops.

Russian scientists have announced the discovery of two new spotted toad species after conducting a research in Bao Loc district, Lam Dong province.

The Japanese eel, a popular summertime delicacy that has become prohibitively expensive due to overfishing, has been put on the international conservation "red list" in a move that may speed up Japan's push for industrial farming of the species.

Customs officers from Anti-Smuggling Department under General Department of Vietnam Customs and Tan Son Nhat Airport Customs Division on have seized 77 elephant tusks allegedly transported from Nigeria.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Germany Agency for International Cooperation, have launched a project supporting the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Vietnam.

As many as 99 new species have been found in Vietnam, according to a World Wildlife Fund recent report.

A Red River delta forum has called for inter-provincial and inter-regional cooperation in cushioning the impact of climate change, especially rising sea levels, on coastal localities.

The Embassy of Denmark has just launched its Talent Prize 2014 in, with the theme of “Climate Change in Photography”.

China's campaign to shave off mountaintops and fill in valleys to make way for cities may come at too high a price in the pollution, erosion and flooding unleashed by the unprecedented redistribution of earth, Chinese researchers warned Thursday.

A national wildlife park will be built in the northern province of Ninh Binh to preserve rare animal species.

The effects of climate change are increasingly upon Vietnam, especially in the southern provinces.

Deputy PM, Hoang Trung Hai, assigned ministries and localities to make preparation plans in case of severe weather incidents this year.

National Assembly deputies proposed stricter regulations for waste materials imports while discussing the revised Environment Law at the ongoing seventh session of the 13th NA on May 30.

About 80 per cent of the eastern and western sea dykes in the southern province of Ca Mau, which are nearly 200km in length, had subsided, according to the provincial People's Committee, and more than 40km had slipped away.

Authorities in Hanoi have agreed to build 10 kilometres of water pipelines to bring water from the Da River to the capital city to alleviate serious water shortages in some areas across the city.

The Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will provide continued support for Vietnam’s preservation and protection of endangered wild animals, and effective implementation of the convention.

Increasing both regional and international cooperation in preserving biodiversity and countering illegal cross-border trade in endangered flora and fauna has been defined as a key mission of the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network.

The annual water shortage has affected thousands of residents in the southern province of Kien Giang's Kien Hai island district, but local authorities have no solution for the repeated situation.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has stopped investment in the State-owned Phuong Nam wood pulp mill in southern Long An Province after seven years of operation.