Environment

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.

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.