Environment

Nghe An Province mobilised more than 70 police to clear rubbish after the locals protests against a dumping ground project.

If sea levels rise by 2 metres, up to 92% of the Mekong Delta region’s total area will be innundated, according to a new report.

The world's whale body narrowly agreed to extend whaling rights for indigenous peoples in the United States, Russia and the Caribbean but opposition mounted to a hunt in Greenland.

Despite the fund of USD7.6 billion, may enterprises don't have wastewater treatment system, or those that they had were inefficient.

University students in HCM City who have been chosen as envoys for an international programme have developed plans to improve primary-school students' awareness about sanitation and environmental protection.

According to the Ministry of Health, 56 percent of hospitals in Vietnam do not have wastewater treatment systems.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a $180 million disaster management project.

A national project to explore and assess the management of sea resources and the environment was able to yield important results, including building centres to cope with oil spills.

Thousands of households in Quang Binh Province have been forced to use unhealthy filtration systems.

Chinese merchants have been hunting for ironwood and many other precious timber in Quang Binh province. Prior to that, they hunted for sua wood in many central provinces.

The only remaining Pinta Island tortoise and celebrated conservation icon passed away Sunday, the Galapagos National Park Service said in a statement.

Vietnam ’s 16 economic sectors need almost USD7.6 billion for environmental protection, especially the aquatic sector with USD1 billion needed.

The first phase of HCM City Environmental Sanitation Project is expected to be completed by the end of this month, as scheduled, according to the project management board.

Efforts to stop Myanmar's tigers being hunted to extinction are under threat from a civil war raging in a region, experts warn.

World leaders gathered in Rio weighed steps to root out poverty and protect the environment as the UN chief warned that "time is not on our side" for fixing a mounting list of problems.

Mining companies will have to deposit at least 15 per cent of their committed costs for environmental rehabilitation and restoration prior their mineral extraction.

Suffering from the terrible smell, hundreds of households in Lang Co town in Thua Thien Hue province have to seal the manholes of a waste water treatment project.

Authorities in HCM City this month are conducting an inspection of medical waste-treatment management at local health facilities.

Nearly 57 percent of the sea area around Kien Giang Province's Phu Quoc Island is affected by coral bleaching.