Environment

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.

The Vietnam national strategy to respond to climate change provides a strong foundation for formulating long-term socioeconomic development plans.

Vietnamese environmental police recently made a bust involving 822 kilos of rare animals in Ha Tinh Province.

Over forty conservationists met to discuss communication strategies in preservation activities at a training course in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.

Thousands of monkeys are being held in overcrowded and barren farms in Laos and sold for international laboratory research, according to a report from a British animal protection group.

19 willow trees in the tourist town of Sapa have been chopped down, shocking local residents and visitors.

HCM City buries much of its solid waste instead of classifying and processing it, affecting the environment, and officials are calling for investment from more sources and greater use of technology.

The lower reach of the Mekong River has proved fertile waters for an array of giant fish, some of which weigh up to 500 kilos.

Thousands of Australians were ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney's northwest and elsewhere in New South Wales state as heavy rainfall flooded rivers and waterways.

Pollution may be turning the planet's oceans acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years, researchers said.

Vietnamese and international scientists have discovered a new species of bat in the Cat Ba and Chu Mom Ray national parks of Vietnam.

Hong Kong's pandas Le Le and Ying Ying have been given some privacy away from the prying eyes of tourists this week in a bid to encourage them to mate, their handlers said.

A communication campaign to promote the use of safe water and environmental sanitation was reviewed at a seminar in Hanoi.

The Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has been recognised as the world's 2,000th Ramsar site, which lists wetlands of international importance.