Environment

The practice of using bear bile and other products for medicinal purposes has pushed the species to the brink of extinction, according to a recent study.

The US will invest $43 milllion in a project to deal with the environmental impact of AO/dioxin poisoning at Danang airport.

The vast swirl of plastic waste floating in the North Pacific has grown 100-fold over the last 40 years, according to a research paper published Wednesday.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will coordinate with Quang Ninh Province's authorities to organise activities marking 2012 World Environment Day in the province.

The Lap An lagoon in Thua Thien-Hue was once famous for its plentiful marine resources and diversified ecosystem, but is now in danger of being destroyed to make way for a golf course.

Residents in central Hanoi will have access to fresh water all summer long, says Nguyen Nhu Hai, general director of the Hanoi Water Company Ltd.

Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching.

International and domestic experts have jointly assessed the impact of climate change on energy and transport as part of a project funded by the ADB.

Vietnam will attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent in the agriculture and forestry sectors by 2020, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Only 70% of Hanoi's household waste is collected for treatment, leaving stagnation in most of the capital's rural areas.

Forest fires blamed on the unseasonably hot weather have devastated swathes of forestry and agricultural land across the country.

Illegal sand exploitation is causing serious landslides and damaging farm land along the banks of the Luoc River in Thai Binh Province’s Diep Nong Commune.

An international air survey has announced that Vietnam is rated 123rd out of 132 nations, and its ranking is forecast to drop even further in the future.

Scientists from the HCM City Agriculture-Forestry University have discovered vanilla orchids in Khanh Hoa Province. This is the first time this species is found in Vietnam.

A hundred people gathered in Dong Nai Province to protest the pollution from discharged waste.

A factory with a daily capacity of recycling 9 tons of plastic bags into PO and DO fuel began operations in the central city of Da Nang.

Vietnamese and German experts gathered in Hanoi to share experience in human resource training and waste treatment in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has submitted the draft of the National Tiger Conservation Programme by 2022 to the Prime Minister.

Experts are worried that Cat Ba Island's environment might be destroyed if 40 million cubic metres of mud from a harbour project are dumped into the ocean.