Environment

A large amount of fish has been found dead on Xuan Huong Lake in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Da Lat City.

Students from four Vietnamese universities are taking part in a Mekong River Commission (MRC) contest that seeks sustainable and advanced technologies for river monitoring.

Construction work on Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai has severely affected nearby residents.

A crab covered in oil creeps across the sand as Philippine fishermen wearing white protective suits, rubber gloves, and respirator masks scrape toxic sludge from the rocks along the shore.

A 49-year-old elephant in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has died from illness and exhaustion.

Lan Ha Bay in the northern city of Haiphong is struggling with pollution, mostly caused by deteriorating styrofoam buoys.

Many areas in the southern region have experienced a severe new heat wave which started on March 26.

In a remarkable display of environmental solidarity, Vietnam saved a staggering 298,000 kWh of electricity, worth an estimated US$23,600, during Earth Hour on Saturday.

A wild elephant has ravaged fruit trees in the southern province of Binh Phuoc’s Dong Phu District.

Air pollution soared in Beijing on Wednesday as the Chinese capital was hit by a huge sandstorm, and dust also shrouded other parts of the country in a sickly orange haze.

Dozens of houses have been badly damaged by hail and whirlwinds that struck some mountainous districts in the central province of Nghe An on Tuesday afternoon.

The first heatwave facing the north this year has arrived, affecting mostly the northwestern area, with the highest temperature on March 21 reaching 34-36 degrees Celsius, even higher in some other places.

Illegal waste discharging has become increasingly rampant in areas around the Han River in Danang City.

Some beaches in the central province of Quang Nam are struggling with serious erosion.

Northern and central provinces are forecasted to experience their first major hot spell of summer with temperatures reaching 37 degrees Celsius.

A green sea turtle weighing 100 kilos has been found at a beach in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

A workshop on promoting Vietnam’s offshore wind power development was held today in Hanoi.

Vietnam has outlined a roadmap to gradually eliminate Hydrofluorocarbons from 2024 with the goal of reducing the basic consumption of these harmful substances to the ozone layer from 2024 to 2028.

Several consecutive tremors hit the central province of Quang Ngai and the central highlands province of Kon Tum on Tuesday morning, according to the Institute of Geophysics of Vietnam.