Environment

The water waste recycled under a filtration technology developed by the HCM City University of Technology can be used to flush toilets, water plants, extinguish fire and water roads.

A lot of regulations have been promulgated, while a lot of action plans have been drawn up within the framework of the sea conservation strategy. However, not much has been done to protect the sea.

A rare pine tree, listed in Vietnam’s Red Data Book, has been on sale recently in the northern province of Lao Cai.

Fearing that the investment would lead to the higher production costs, Vietnamese enterprises still hesitate to join the programme on labeling products as energy saving products.

Every summer, volunteers from Cycle for Environment (C4E) club start to prepare for their annual long journey for environmental protection activities.

An endangered monkey known as the Miller's Grizzled Langur has been discovered on the island of Borneo, international researchers said.

Several bear farms in northeastern Quang Ninh Province's Ha Long City still cater to South Korean tourists who buy fresh bile taken from live animals despite a clamp down.

The “mineral bleeding” would become even more serious in 2012 if local authorities do not take drastic measures to control the mineral exports.

The HCM City Transport Co-operatives Union has put into operation five buses that run on compressed natural gas.

Vietnam's coastal region in the West part of Tonkin Gulf suffers from transboundary environmental pollution and joint efforts are being urged to tackle this problem.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has set annual import quotas for ozone-depleting HCFCs from 2012 to 2019.

Vietnam's coastal region of West Bac Bo (Tonkin) Gulf suffers from transboundary environmental pollution and joint efforts are being urged to tackle this problem.

The number of enterprises which pay industrial wastewater charge for environmental protection has been shrinking, a recent survey has found.

The Vietnam Environment Administration launched the largest ever biodiversity conservation project to establish a biodiversity corridor in three central provinces.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday chaired the first working session of the National Committee on Climate Change, two days after its official establishment.

A five-kilometre long illegal road has been constructed in order to facilitate the destruction of a protected forest in Quang Ngai.

China released six young captive pandas into semi-wild enclosures as part of a project aimed at helping the endangered bears adapt to the wild.

A forest development programme aiming to make one-third of the nation’s forests meet sustainable development standards by 2020 is considered too ambitious.

The ocean's deepest volcanic vents, kilometres below the surface, are teeming with life forms never before seen that thrive near super-hot underwater geysers, according to a new study.