Environment

Wetlands just outside India's Kolkata have for generations provided tonnes of food daily and thousands of jobs as they filter sewage through fish ponds -- but rapid urbanisation is threatening the ecosystem.

The south-central province of Ninh Thuan plans to grow 1,121ha of new forests to replace forest areas which are cut down in 2023-25.

Green development, energy transition, and emissions reduction are inevitable and irreversible trends that Vietnam cannot stand aside, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on July 14.

The river running through India's capital New Delhi has reached a record high due to monsoon floods, authorities said Friday as army engineers were deployed to try to contain the waters.

A large fire has burnt down over 4,000 square metres of natural protective forest in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

A rare langur has been discovered at Kim Hy Nature Reserve in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan’s Na Ri District.

A film focused on a group of friends within a Tam My Tay community gathering to protect the grey-shanked douc langur has won the runner-up prize in the Documentary Shorts Category of the Film for the Forest 2023 award.

People who live near Da Phuoc Rubbish Dump in HCM City have been seriously affected by its severe pollution.

The hot spell, believed to be the longest to hit northern and north-central regions of Vietnam this summer, is forecast to last for several days more with daytime temperatures even rising past 39℃.

Many HCM City canals have faced pollution again despite being upgraded.

A tourism investor has just proposed to build a 5.3-hectare resort in a forest in the Central Highlands Province of Lam Dong.

Farmers in the central province of Nghe An are worried about their rice dying in the fields due to prolonged droughts.

Four consecutive earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 3.5 to 4.2 hit Kon Plong district, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, on the morning of July 7.

The northern region will have heavy rains from Saturday evening following some severely hot days.

Plans to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant cleared their last regulatory hurdle in Japan on Friday, as China said it would ban some food imports over the move.

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog tried to reassure local residents and representatives on Wednesday that the planned release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant is safe.

The Animals Asia Foundation has worked with the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak to phase out the elephant-riding tourism industry and has given endangered elephants a return to life in the wild.

A Thai elephant gifted to Sri Lanka two decades ago arrived back in its birth country Sunday, following a diplomatic spat over the animal's alleged mistreatment.

A Thai elephant gifted to Sri Lanka two decades ago was flown back to its birth country on Sunday after a diplomatic spat over the animal's alleged mistreatment.