Environment

Pha Lai Thermal Power Plant in the northern province of Hai Duong’s Pha Lai City has been suspended for 12 months for causing environmental pollution.

Experts have issued warnings about an increasingly complex storm season this year, in conjunction with the onset of a moderate to robust El Nino weather phenomenon.

The Mekong Delta City of Can Tho has piloted the flood warning system, using cameras in vulnerable areas.

The northern region is experiencing a new severe heat wave which will last until July 27 when rains are expected over the weekend.

Around six tonnes of fish have been found dead at lakes and canals in the central city of Danang over the past week.

Vu Quang National Park announced on Thursday that they have just released 53 animals back into the wild.

Japan’s discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea will not impact Vietnam’s sea areas, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Another storm is expected in the East Sea next week, said Hoang Phuc Lam, deputy director of the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

An elephant has been found dead in a forest in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Wetlands just outside India's Kolkata have for generations provided tonnes of food daily and thousands of jobs as they filter sewage through fish ponds -- but rapid urbanisation is threatening the ecosystem.

The south-central province of Ninh Thuan plans to grow 1,121ha of new forests to replace forest areas which are cut down in 2023-25.

Green development, energy transition, and emissions reduction are inevitable and irreversible trends that Vietnam cannot stand aside, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on July 14.

The river running through India's capital New Delhi has reached a record high due to monsoon floods, authorities said Friday as army engineers were deployed to try to contain the waters.

A large fire has burnt down over 4,000 square metres of natural protective forest in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

A rare langur has been discovered at Kim Hy Nature Reserve in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan’s Na Ri District.

A film focused on a group of friends within a Tam My Tay community gathering to protect the grey-shanked douc langur has won the runner-up prize in the Documentary Shorts Category of the Film for the Forest 2023 award.

People who live near Da Phuoc Rubbish Dump in HCM City have been seriously affected by its severe pollution.

The hot spell, believed to be the longest to hit northern and north-central regions of Vietnam this summer, is forecast to last for several days more with daytime temperatures even rising past 39℃.

Many HCM City canals have faced pollution again despite being upgraded.