Environment

Approximately 12,000 households in Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau are grappling with a scarcity of clean water due to a prolonged drought.

Vietnam will build 98 more air quality monitoring stations in all 63 cities and provinces across the country till 2030.

The Ha Long Bay Management Board has acknowledged the pollution issues affecting the bay and has committed to implementing additional measures to mitigate the problem.

Four Sarus cranes have been spotted at the Tram Chim National Park after a two-year absence, a positive sign as the park is carrying out a project to lure them back.

Many foreign tourists have expressed disappointment over the pollution at the UNESCO heritage site Ha Long Bay.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh and Ambassador of the Netherlands to Vietnam Kees van Baar discussed collaboration in both the environment and energy during their meeting held on March 4 in Hanoi.

Hanoi was ranked as the world’s most air-polluted city on March 5, according to data released by air quality monitor AirVisual.

Asian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behaviour reminiscent of human funeral rites.

Ho Chi Minh City needs to adopt policies and channel financial resources to develop a carbon credit market in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions and respond to global warming, experts said.

The Dan Kia-Suoi Vang Reservoir, which serves as the domestic water supply for Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, is nearing its dead water level, raising fears of a domestic water shortage among local residents.

Hanoi’s just-opened Astronomy Park has seen mass fish deaths over recent days.

European Union (EU) import charges on carbon-intensive products are expected to have a limited impact on climate change and only a modest negative effect on economies in Asia and the Pacific, according to research by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Authorities in HCM City said on Friday that they were hunting for a monkey that had caused chaos and attacked four residents in Thanh Loc Ward in District 12.

For nearly a decade, Néang Ma La, a Khmer woman, has been working tirelessly alongside her colleagues at U Minh Thượng National Park in the southern Kiên Giang Province to care for wildlife saved from illegal trafficking.

A large area of forest in the Hoang Lien National Park has been damaged in two consecutive fires which occurred between February 19-21.

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.