Environment

Local scientists and experts have said that a few rhinos may be still living in the Cat Tien

Nineteen of the most vulnerable countries to climate change have today agreed to present a unified front filling the

Rampant and illegal forest exploitation has been identified as one cause deforestation, according to the Vietnam Administration of Forestry.

The World Bank’s Special Envoy on climate change Andrew Steer is on a visit to Vietnam to assess impacts of climate change on the Southeast Asian country.

Along Vietnam's central coastline, besides luxury tourist resorts, another world lives in small narrow houses, exposed to dangers of storms.

Saigontourist has launched over 300 inbound and outbound tours to welcome the upcoming Christmas festival and Tet holiday since early November.

Four polluting factories in HCM City were forced to suspend operations by having their power supply cut and their machinery sealed, an agency said.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake killed at least three people in eastern Turkey, less than three weeks after a quake killed more than 600 in the same area, TRT television reported.

Vietnam's Xoan singing will be one of the 23 heritages to be put for recognition as a world intangible cultural heritage at a UNESCO meeting.

Environmental mismanagement and serious pollution at craft villages were discussed by the National Assembly in Hanoi on November 8.

Serious environmental pollution shrank the average lifespan of residents in trade villages and economic zones by 10 years, an agency said.

A ceremony to launch tours of Viet Bac heritage sites was held in Bac Kan Province on November 7 with a special art performances.

Australia's upper house passed a controversial pollution tax Tuesday in what the government called a "history-making vote".

Following the killing of the last rare rhinoceros in Vietnam by poachers, scientists are calling for better management at Cat Tien National Park.

Conservationists warned that moves to restrict tiger tourism in India to protect the endangered big cats would have the opposite effect.

Scientists are concerned about environmental pollution in Nha Trang Bay due to increasing amounts of untreated wastewater.

Harmful carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels made their biggest ever annual jump in 2010, showed the US Department of Energy's world data.

Issues relating to environmental and ecological changes were the subject of the Vietnam Press Cartoon contest, launched nationwide on November 3.

The domestic fisheries sector has set itself the target of reducing gas emissions by 20% over the next 10 years.