The drought in America's breadbasket is intensifying at an unprecedented rate, experts warned, driving concern food prices could soar if crops in the world's key producer are decimated.
Chevron has been ordered to pay more than $19 billion in environmental damages, $1 billion more than originally decided, after an Ecuadoran court adjusted the amount on appeal, a source said.
Vietnam expects to receive USD248 million of aid to its efforts to adapt to climate change this years, as all major international donors have now joined the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change.
Tropical storm Vicente is moving in the East Sea towards Southern China and will likely enter the Tonkin Gulf tomorrow, Vietnam’s Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Center reported.
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.
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
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.