Environment

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.

The Lepironia articulate grass field in Phu My commune, Kien Luong district, the southern province of Kien Giang, has received the first flocks of red-headed cranes.

The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$70 million credit project from the International Development Association to help Vietnam tackle climate change challenges.

Some lakes and ponds in Hanoi have disappeared during the urbanisation, while many others are getting narrowed, and many of them are getting seriously polluted.

Globally endangered green turtles are enjoying a baby boom on remote Philippine islands, environment group Conservation International said.

Hanoi has begun to modernise old air-quality monitoring stations this year under a plan approved by the Hanoi People's Committee.

Across southern Florida, rabbits, raccoons, bobcats and foxes have been disappearing at dramatic rates over the past decade, and invasive Burmese pythons are to blame, a US study said.

The Ramsar Convention’s Secretariat has reached an agreement to recognise Cham Trim National Park as a Ramsar Convention of Wetlands of International Importance, said the park’s director.

Authorities at central Da Nang City's Ba Na Nature Reserve have been urged to build more zoos and aviaries to ensure better protection for endangered species in the area.