Environment

Six rhinos have died of unknown causes at an eco-tourism site in the central province of Nghe An.

The US Agency for International Development, and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee on Tuesday launched a project to accelerate renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions to the city’s urban energy challenges.

As many as 119 people in Vietnam are dead or missing so far this year due to natural disasters, according to the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

A seminar took place in Can Tho on September 19 to launch the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s ‘We Love Cities’ campaign in the Mekong Delta city for a greener future.

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.