Environment

According to Nguyen Duc Hoa, Deputy Head of the Climate Forecasting Division under the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting, Vietnam is set to struggle with more intense hot spells in May.

The Field Restaurant in Hoi An City has been awarded the Gold Platinum Low-Carbon Tourism Standard certification by Magnus International.

A big forest fire has occurred at Co To Mountain in the southern province of An Giang.

Vietnam's northern region will struggle with a widespread heat wave, with high temperatures of around 40 degrees centigrade in some areas.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has been promoting and providing guidance for enterprises to implement slight reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and conduct greenhouse gas inventories in the industry and trade sector.

A pagoda in the central city of Danang has handed over 114 turtles to local forest rangers for their release back into the wild.

About 20,090ha of farmland and over 2,600 households have been hit by drought and water scarcity in the Central Region, Central Highlands, and Northeastern Regions.

It is easy to see rubbish thrown onto many streets in Hanoi and bridges, worsening the city’s pollution.

Around 7.1 million cubic metres of water are being pumped into Vam Co Dong River in the Mekong Delta province of Long An to mitigate saline intrusion.

Around 100 tonnes of seaweed has drifted onto Do Son Beach in the northern city of Haiphong over recent days.

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau is facing a high risk of more forest fires amid hot weather.

People in the southern province of Long An are being hit by the severe pollution caused by two local dumping grounds.

Residents in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa have opposed the construction of a landfill.

Mining explosions at quarries along the Nha Trang-Cam Lam Expressway in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa have been blamed for causing environmental pollution and endangering drivers.

Global warming has played a key role in gradually thinning the glaciers atop Puncak Jaya, Papua, Indonesia, some of the few remaining tropical glaciers in the world, according to Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics.

Authorities in the southernmost province of Ca Mau have decided to suspend a walking competition through the U Minh Ha National Park due to the fear of forest fires.

The forest management task force in the central province of Quang Nam has rescued a rare chamois.

The US Agency for International Development and Standard Chartered Bank (Vietnam) Limited (SC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday.

Rain has been forecasted to arrive in HCM City this week, helping to cool the city amid the scorching hot weather.