Environment

NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue had a meeting in London with UK Cabinet Office Minister and President for 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference Alok Sharma who expressed impression at Vietnam’s determination in transition to green and renewable energy.

Vietnam has officially launched the Southeast Asia Flash Flood Guidance System on Tuesday morning and assumed the role of being a regional hub in forecasting landslides and flash floods.

A tropical depression to the north of the East Sea has strengthened into a storm, the first hitting the waters this year, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

A coastal road in the central province of Ha Tinh is facing high risk of more landslides following a severe incident last year.

Speaker of the UK House of Lords John Mcfall said he supports efforts to ramp up all-round cooperation between the UK and Vietnam, including in climate change response, during his talks with the top Vietnamese legislator in London.

The Vietnam Circular Economy Forum 2022 took place on June 28 with a focus on how to translate the commitment on net zero emissions into action.

A Saigon Zoo member of staff and a group of students are transforming elephant dung into paper.

A large amount of fish has been found dead in the Yen So Lake in Hanoi's Hoang Mai District over the past few days.

Japan's government warned Monday of a power crunch as extreme heat hits the country, with temperature records toppling and Tokyo's rainy season declared over at the earliest date on record.

Xuan Son Landfill in Hanoi's Son Tay Town has stopped receiving waste from June 23 due to overloading.

Ngụy Thị Khanh, former head of NGO GreenID and known for advocating the reduction of coal-fired power in Vietnam, was handed a prison sentence for economic crimes, not her environmental activism, spokesperson for the foreign ministry Lê Thị Thu

The Australian government on Thursday launched the Plastics Innovation Hub in Vietnam which aims to deliver new innovations to tackle plastic waste in the country.

Four tremors with magnitudes of up to 3.2 vibrated throughout the mountainous district of Kon Plong in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum early on June 22, the Institute of Geophysics reported.

Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.

While the northern and central regions are experiencing scorching heat, the forecasting centre said the heat may become more extreme in the time ahead.

A project to upgrade Xuyen Tam Canal in HCM City was approved in 2002, but to date, it has remained on paper, resulting in serious pollution.

The last captive bear in the southern province of Binh Phuoc was handed over to the centre of Free The Bears in the Cat Tien National Park on June 17.

Flood, fire and drought-battered Australia is trying to clean up its act on climate change, but dependence on fossil fuel riches could stymie the national makeover.

The United State Agency for International Development (USAID) Biodiversity Conservation Activity has launched a $1.4 million Species Conservation Fund (SCF) in Vietnam to support locally-led conservation efforts initiated by Vietnamese NGOs and other independent organisations.