Environment

The deforestation and the changing of the living environment are the two main reasons which have led to the extinction of some species.

Expanding palm-oil plantations in Malaysian Borneo are rapidly eating into the habitat of the rare proboscis monkey, officials warned.

The forest coverage of Vietnam in 2011 has reached 40% as a result of activities in responding to the 2011 International Year of Forest launched by the United Nations.

Millions of people are under threat from melting of Himalayan glaciers, according to scientists.

UN climate talks on Monday enter their second week entangled in a thick mesh of issues with no guarantee that negotiators and their ministers will be able to sort them out.

International scientists has found "record-setting" change in the Arctic linked to global warming, including melting ice, warming waters and changing wind patterns.

The French Development Agency has provided credit worth EUR20 million to help Vietnam implement its climate change adaptation programme.

Officials from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam will discuss the controversial Xayaburi dam in Mekong River next week.

Officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology began a survey in Quang Nam Province to define cause of recent explosions there.

Japanese Red Cross has committed $2.76 million to help a Vietnam Red Cross mangrove and disaster risk reduction project till 2015.

The world's deforestation rate has accelerated to 6.4 million hectares a year, a new UN survey showed.

A US-funded project on strengthening disaster prevention and adaptation capacity for the most vulnerable central coastal area of Vietnam was launched.

UNICEF and Procter & Gamble completed a $275,000 project to provide water and sanitation facilities for primary schools in Vietnam.

The threat posed by climate change to security is now eyed with deepening concern by politicians and defence chiefs.

Countries most vulnerable to climate change are alarmed to delay a global deal to curb greenhouse gases until at least 2020, analysts said.

Vietnam and the European Union entered a second round of negotiations for an agreement aimed at curbing illegal logging.

The burning of rice stubble has been a regular occurrence throughout the capital's suburban areas despite warnings that its smoke could harm residents and the environment.

The Australian government has said it plans to establish the world's biggest marine protection zone to safeguard a huge swathe of the Coral Sea, a biodiversity hotspot brimming with life.

High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have less of an impact on the rate of global warming than feared, a study said.