Environment

Water quality in canals has worsened in Ho Chi Minh City with a constant flow of polluted waste being dumped from industrial units, despite the city authorities’ best efforts.

The first traditional eco-friendly bamboo longhouse, sponsored by World Wildlife Fund, was inaugurated in Ta Lai village in Tan Phu District in the southern province of Dong Nai.

A workshop to promote cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City and Osaka city of Japan in managing solid waste took place in Ho Chi Minh City.

A project, which is carried out in 11 cities and provinces nationwide between 2011 and 2015, is expected to improve the environment in seriously polluted areas in these localities.

Ten sea reserves and 19 inland waters reserves will have been established and put into use by 2015, according to a program on protecting and developing seafood resources.

The wastewater from the Dung Quat Bio-Ethanol Plant is being blamed for killing thousands of fish in Quang Ngai Province.

Authorities in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue have started to build two conservation stations in forests inhabited by the Saola, one of the world's rarest mammals, in A Luoi District.

The Prime Minister has approved the master plan on a treatment system for harmful medical solid waste by 2025.

In order to prevent the pollution for river valleys, it’s necessary to control the water quality with the water monitoring systems; there are very few such systems.

By 2015, Vietnam will produce 44 million tonnes of solid waste per year, which causes water, air and land pollution and threatens community health.

America and Eurasia will crash into each other over the North Pole in 50-200 million years time, according to scientists at Yale University.

Authorities in HCM City are amending the municipal urban planning in order to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change.

More than 4,600 enterprises from 30 provinces across the country will respond to the 2012 Earth Hour.

Elephants at Vu Quang National Park in Ha Tinh are in desperate need of protection as their population is in sharp decline.

Vietnam is listed amongst the top ten countries with the worst air pollution in the world, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI).

People in the highlands province of Dak Lak are scavenging for the stumps of rare trees to be sold to luxury furniture makers.

The Prime Minister approved a pilot project aimed at engaging the local community in protection, management and development of forests.

Two new species of scorpions have been discovered in Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh.

Australia's flood crisis deepened as authorities braced for waters to peak in Queensland where one woman is missing after being swept away while elsewhere thousands remain stranded by the surge.