Environment

Asia's fast economic growth has increased the region's vulnerability to natural disasters, with new developments springing up in catastrophe-prone areas, the UN warned on Tuesday.

Australia said it was searching for a new aircraft landing site for planes supplying its three bases in Antarctica because the current runway is melting.

People have complained that Phu Yen Urban Environmental Hygiene Company has polluted the Cay Sanh stream in the area.

Environmentalists have expressed their concern about the fates of natural reserves, saying that the reserves have not been preserved for the purpose of biodiversity conservation.

A programme to curb pollution from insecticide residues by targeting 100 hot spots throughout the nation will cost VND1.01 trillion ($48.4 million).

Soil has been excavated everywhere in Phu Tho province, causing serious environment pollution and landslide, thus harming local people’s lives.

Negotiators sought to persuade wealthy nations to bankroll ambitious targets for stemming the loss of Earth's dwindling natural resources.

The Tuyen Lam Lake tourist site in the romantic city of Da Lat has been rescued--with a solution which has been found to treat the waste water of the lake.

The PM has approved the National Action Plan on Climate Change for the period 2012-2020, which states that Vietnam is one of the countries that will be affected negatively by climate change.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new five year programmes to help Vietnam address the impacts of climate change.

Over 70 environment ministers meet in India for key talks on halting the depletion of Earth's natural resources, under pressure to put up money to match their political pledges.

Environmental experts have called on Vietnam to make further efforts in providing economic incentives and better policies to promote "greener" buildings.

A report released at the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity meeting said lemurs in Madagasca are severely endangered due to habitat destruction and illegal hunting.

Vietnam's largest troop of langurs (pygathrix cinerea) are flourishing in the National Kon Ka Kinh Park in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

National Assembly deputies from Dong Nai have called for a renewed Environmental Impact Assessments report prepared for two controversial power plants intended to be built in the locality.

As sea level rises, encroaching on the shores of Phu Thuan Commune in Thua Thien Hue Province, many households have yet to be relocated.

Fourteen species of rare fish have been discovered in caves in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, in the central province of Quang Binh.

HCMC local authorities are calling for the investment in the project to recycle sludge, which would not only help clean the environment, but also generate useful products.

Catastrophes like Japan's 2011 tsunami cost the world over $3.5 trillion over the last 30 years, a conference heard, as the World Bank called for better disaster planning.