Environment

Hanoi ranked third worst air-polluted city in the world on September 19 according to Airvisual.

A strong earthquake struck southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, killing at least one person, bringing down a handful of buildings and tearing up roads -- but forecasters said the threat of a regional tsunami had passed.

The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap is working on a plan to save red-headed cranes from extinction.

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats that has divided experts on its prospects.

A workshop was held in the central province of Quang Binh on September 16 to review a cooperation model for managing and conserving the Hatinh langur, a critically endangered primate, in a special-use forest in Tuyen Hoa district.

Hundreds of hectares of oysters in the northern coastal province of Thai Binh have died after an oil tanker sank near a local port, causing an oil slick.

Many residents in HCM City's Cu Chi District have complained about the rising pollution blamed on a waste treatment plant.

Thousands of people in the northern central province of Nghe An’s Ky Son District are being isolated due to flooding.

A forest in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has been seriously damaged with dozens of trees cut down.

HCM City is calling for investment in six planned wastewater treatment projects to treat about three million cubic metres (cu.m) of wastewater a day in the city.

Hoang Ha Paper Joint Stock Company in the northern city of Haiphong is facing strong opposition from local residents due to many years of pollution.

The waste discharge into streams, encroachment at construction sites, and sluggish projects are among the causes blamed for serious flooding in the Central Highlands Province of Lam Dong’s Da Lat City.

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry visited Ho Chi Minh City, Ben Tre Province, and Hanoi from September 2- 6 for bilateral climate talks with the Vietnamese government.

Franklinia, a Swiss private foundation, has agreed to fund a conservation project for two endangered species of endemic oak in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.

Authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh has approved a proposal to continue a zero-plastic-waste programme on the local Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

PM Pham Minh Chinh expressed his hope that the US will continue its support for Vietnam in negotiations on the just energy transition partnership while receiving US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.

The saola, one of the world’s rarest animals, is getting a critical emergency boost from the European Union, Re:wild and WWF-Vietnam to prevent its extinction.

Seven earthquakes with magnitudes between 2.7 and 4.1 on the Richter scale were recorded in Kon Plong District in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on September 1.

Co To Island in the northern province of Quang Ninh has started a pilot programme to ban visitors from bringing plastic products to the island since today, September 1.