Environment

Six rare turtles have been handed over to Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh to be taken care of before being released into the wild.

The ongoing drought is exacerbating erosion in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.

The Vinh Hao-Phan Thiet Expressway in the southern province of Binh Thuan is suffering from excessive litter.

More than 50 hectares of protective forest have been damaged in a fire in the northern mountainous province of Son La's Bac Yen District.

A large forest fire has spread at the Hoang Lien Son National Park in the northern province of Lao Cai.

Many localities in the Mekong Delta region are focusing on attracting investment and developing renewable energy projects, helping to solve energy security issues and driving socio-economic breakthroughs in the region.

FPT Information System Company Limited (FPT IS) and Carbon EX have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in providing services and solutions to promote carbon credit projects.

State President Vo Van Thuong on February 15 launched the national tree planting festival 2024 in Kim Phu commune of Tuyen Quang province, northern Vietnam.

A group of young volunteers in HCM City have cleaned over 150 polluted canals in HCM City and surrounding provinces, collecting over 2,000 tonnes of rubbish over the past year.

Many bears at the Vietnam Bear Sanctuary in Tam Dao National Park are enjoying the Tet Lunar New Year with their favourite food.

The Bach Dang Wharf Park in HCM City's District 1 was covered in rubbish after thousands of people gathered to watch a fireworks show on the Lunar New Year's Eve on Friday.

A VND1.7 trillion (USD69.38 million) waste-to-energy project in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has been put into use.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has recommended localities in the Mekong Delta to closely monitor saltwater intrusion information and forecast bulletins, which are predicted to peak in February 2024.

Five earthquakes were recorded in Kon Plong district in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum on February 7 morning, according to the Earthquake Information and Tsunami Warning Centre under the Institute of Geophysics.

A 6.5kg hawksbill sea turtle that was accidentally caught by a local man was released back to the sea off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on February 5.

The central province of Quang Tri has assigned organisations to clear about 42 million sq.m. of land contaminated with cluster bombs this year, said its steering committee for settling war-left unexploded ordnance consequences.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has expressed Vietnam's readiness to collaborate closely with the EU in building an exemplary cooperation model for green transformation, aiming to support developing nations, including Vietnam, in bridging gaps in finance, technology

Maps indicating landslide-prone areas in 37 mountainous and midland areas will be completed by 2025 under an early-warning project managed by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

The Asian Development Bank committed $9.80 billion in climate finance last year, including $5.50 billion for mitigation and $4.30 billion for adaptation, which showed an increase of over 46% against its 2022 climate financing commitments.