Environment

Smoke discharges from thousands of brick-kilns in the Mekong Delta have polluted the environment and impacted human health and agricultural productivity.

Hundreds of local people protested against two steel companies over pollution in Hoa Vang District, Danang Province.

Investigation Police Ha Tinh Province said they would take strict action against those responsible for illegal felling of trees and denuding forest land in Huong Son District's Son Hong Commune.

Greenhouse gases are likely to result in annual costs of nearly $2 trillion in damage to the oceans by 2100, according to a new Swedish study.

The density of traffic in urban areas is the main cause of severe air pollution in Vietnam, experts said.

A symposium themed, “Air Quality Improvement and Urban Transport: Best Practice and Cooperative Projects” will be held in Hanoi on March 21.

Some of the country's protected forests may be under threat if a proposal from the Vietnam Administration of Forestry's Financial and Planning Department is approved.

A seminar to raise initiatives on climate change among young people was held in Danang City on March 16.

By 2020, Vietnam will have to still fight forest fires manually, said a senior official of the General Department of Forestry.

Sustainable development would depend on a shift to a green economy, officials said at a seminar held in HCM City.

Amazed biologists have uncovered a new species of frog in the jungle -- New York's concrete jungle.

A three-day conference on developing towns that are well adapted to face climate change challenges opened on March 13 in Mekong Delta's Can Tho City.

Russian and South Korean scientists have signed a deal on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago.

A delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is attending the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, from March 12-16.

Developing green works has become a growing tendency in the construction industry, because experts believe that green works will create a better and more economical living standard.

The centralised wastewater treatment plant of the Long Thanh Industrial Park in southern Dong Nai Province has been caught polluting a canal for four years, an environmental agency said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued an order asking ministries, industries and localities to take drastic measures to prevent forest fires.

HCM City's outskirts are experiencing increasing flooding incidents, an official said.

The biggest space weather storm in five years is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to disrupt power grids, GPS systems, satellites and airline flights, experts say.