Environment

According to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting, heavy rain will return to Hanoi this evening, September 9.

Local residents of northern and north-central localities of Vietnam have been advised to stay home, starting September 7 morning, when super typhoon Yagi is expected to make landfall.

Japan has wiped out all mongooses on a subtropical island, officials said, after the animals ignored the venomous snakes they were brought in to hunt and preyed on endangered local rabbits instead.

Oil clumps have been found on a beach in Nha Trang City in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa.

Tropical storm Yagi is forecast to enter the East Sea on September 3 and is likely to gain further strength into a powerful typhoon, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has revised the amount of CO2 transferred in 2018-2019 in the north central region.

Straw burning has remained prevalent in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, causing air pollution.

The southern central province of Phu Yen has decided to establish a geopark which covers thousands of square kilometres.

The second phase of Binh Hung Wastewater Treatment Plant in HCM City was inaugurated this morning, August 30.

Authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh's Huong Son District yesterday destroyed seven frozen tiger cubs, which were found earlier at a local house.

A forest in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa has seen trees cut down but not transported away or just partially cut.

A sea turtle has been found laying eggs on Cau Island (Hon Cau) in the southern central province of Binh Thuan.

With months until crunch talks on the world's first binding treaty on plastic pollution, experts are meeting in Bangkok to discuss financing options and problematic plastics.

Policy makers in Asia and the Pacific are struggling to collect and analyze the data they need to effectively respond to climate change, hampering efforts in a region considered the world’s most vulnerable to the effects of a warming planet.

Astronomy enthusiasts in Vietnam are counting down to the time when the first super moon of the year, a rare astronomical phenomenon, will rise to the fullest in the night sky early on August 20.

Some rivers in the northern region of Vietnam are struggling with serious erosion following heavy rain and the water discharges by hydropower plants.

A devastating flood of freezing water smashed through a village Friday in Nepal's Everest region, local government and army officials said, with experts suspecting a glacial lake outburst.

A man in the central province of Quang Binh has handed over a rare turtle to the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park's Centre for Rescue, Conservation and Creature Development.

Caterpillars have attacked many pine forests in the central province of Nghe An.