Environment

A rare hornbill has been found in a residential garden in Ho Chi Minh City and handed over to authorities for protection.

A rare pangolin weighing 6kg was found crawling onto a road in Lam Dong Province and was later handed to authorities and released back into the wild.

Household rubbish and flood damaged belongings have accumulated along D’ran Pass, a main gateway to Dalat in Lam Dong Province, after historic flooding late last month.

Authorities in An Giang Province have successfully captured a large python that crawled into a resident’s home at the foot of Sam Mountain.

Sky-watchers in Vietnam will have the opportunity to observe the Ursids meteor shower, which will reach its peak on the night of December 22, according to Time and Date.

Phu Tho Province has approved the conversion of nearly four hectares of forest land to support construction of the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant expansion project.

Two Vietnamese species, the sucker-mouthed fish Supradiscus varidiscus and the bee Habropoda pierwolae, were among over 70 new species identified in 2025 by the American Museum of Natural History.

Northern Vietnam is set to experience two additional cold air surges, bringing rain and lower temperatures from December 21 and again around December 24, according to the national weather agency.

Hanoi plans to build two additional waste-to-energy plants in Soc Son and Son Tay, with the goal of largely treating all of the city’s household waste by 2028.

Camera traps have captured images of the Asian golden cat for the first time in Pu Hoat Nature Reserve in the central province of Nghe An, conservation officials said.

Authorities in Tay Ninh Province have fined a crocodile owner VND 315 million after an illegally kept animal escaped and bit a local man.

Air pollution has returned to Hanoi and several northern localities after several days of improvement, with conditions forecast to worsen further on Thursday.

Dense fog covered large parts of Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of December 17, with forecasters warning the phenomenon is likely to persist into the following day.

A farmer in Tay Ninh Province alerted local authorities after spotting a large, unusual bird landing in his rice field while he was working.

Authorities have inspected a wildlife breeding facility in Ho Chi Minh City, uncovering several endangered and rare animals being kept without proof of legal origin.

Northern and north-central Vietnam will see cold nights and early mornings with scattered rain in the coming days, as a stronger cold air mass is forecast to arrive later this week.

Three people have died after a landslide buried two road workers and a motorcyclist on National Highway 6 in Phu Tho Province, authorities said on December 15.

Temperature inversion combined with dust from construction, widespread waste burning and heavy traffic has pushed Hanoi’s air pollution to hazardous levels.

Ho Chi Minh City forest rangers and Nha Be police found 75 illegally kept South American iguanas at a house in Nha Be Commune on December 12.