Environment

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.

Prolonged temporary settlement, low compensation for land, and environmental pollution are among some major voter concerns that will be discussed at the HCM City People's Council meeting.

More than 20 tonnes of rare wild animals were returned to their natural habitat by the Forest Management Department of southernmost Ca Mau province at U Minh Ha Vo Doi National Park.

More than 85 percent of reefs in Asia's "Coral Triangle" are directly threatened by human activities such as coastal development, pollution, and overfishing, a new report warned on Monday.

The central province of Quang Nam has implemented measures to prevent drought and saline-water intrusion and mitigate damage to rice and other crops.

South Korea came under pressure from outraged governments and environmentalists to scrap plans to kill whales under a "scientific" research programme denounced as a sham.