Environment

A sea turtle has been spotted in Nha Trang Bay for the first time in years, marking a significant milestone for marine conservation in Vietnam.

The Mango Garden Zoo in the southern province of Dong Nai has temporarily closed after 20 tigers and a panther died from the A/H5N1 virus.

An additional 12,000 trees have been planted in the northwestern region of Vietnam as part of a campaign named ‘For a Green and Sustainably Developing Vietnam’.

Torrents of water rushing downstream from the Himalayas have killed at least 20 people in India and Bangladesh in floods and landslides, government disaster officials said Monday.

The air quality of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, reached an “unhealthy” level on October 7 morning, placing it at the top of the world’s most air polluted cities list.

Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognise his once beautiful settlement.

More than 100 elephants in northern Thailand have been moved to higher ground to escape rapidly rising flood waters, local media reported, but many other animals were still stuck as their sanctuary struggled to evacuate them on Friday.

Cuc Phuong National Park in the northern province of Ninh Binh has received seven rare and endangered animals over the past week.

A new bee species was discovered in the Vũ Quang National Park in the central province of Hà Tĩnh, announced the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and the park on Wednesday.

Up to 36 earthquakes with magnitudes between 2.5 and 4.0 were recorded in September, mainly in Kon Plong district the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, according to Institute of Geophysics under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai's Son Ha District have decided to modify a mountain's slope geometry to protect a residential area and a road from being threatened by landslides.

Authorities are investigating the death of 44 tigers, three lions, and a panther at two private zoos in the two southern provinces of Dong Nai and Long An over the past month.

Vietnam Airlines has launched the “Bay nhe toi Con Dao” (flying lightly to Con Dao) campaign, with an aim of reducing carbon emissions.

A man has just been detained for illegally transporting 17 long-tailed monkeys in the southern island of Con Dao.

A new cold air mass combined with a low-pressure trough crossing the North Central region is anticipated to cause widespread heavy rain across northern and north-central localities of Vietnam.

Low-lying neighbourhoods in Nepal's capital Kathmandu were inundated by surging floodwaters on Sunday after ferocious monsoon rains that police said had killed at least 101 people around the Himalayan republic.

Farmers in the Central Highlands City of Dalat have been called for gathering abandoned pesticide packaging containers to exchange for gifts, which has proved an effective way to protect the environment.

Fines of between VNĐ900 million-1 billion (US$36,600-40,700) have been proposed for discharging domestic solid waste which contains radioactive substances, causing environmental contamination.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Đỗ Hùng Việt co-chaired the panel discussion “Adaptation, finance and resilience in relation to sea-level rise” with special envoy of the French President and Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues Olivier Poivre d’Arvor.