Environment

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) celebrated the completion of the USAID Saving Species project on August 27.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $60 million financing package to improve the climate resilience of transport and water supply infrastructure in Vietnam’s south-central coastal provinces of Binh Dinh and Quang Nam, especially in remote upland districts

Vietnam aims to use 100 percent of environmentally-friendly plastic bags and packaging at shopping malls and supermarkets by 2025, according to a project on strengthening management of plastic waste in Vietnam approved by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh.

A grey-shanked douc langur in the central province of Quang Ngai has been handed over to Cuc Phuong National Park’s Endangered Primate Rescue Centre.

Between seven and nine storms and tropical depressions are forecast to hit the East Sea, of which up to four will directly affect Vietnam's mainland, from now until the end of 2021.

After high temperatures, many provinces and areas in Vietnam will have rains and rainstorms in the afternoon in the coming week.

In a deadly silent and scorched landscape, French scientist Dominique Guicheteau lies on his front, plunges his hand under a rock and brings out a Hermann's tortoise.

Vietnamese children are among the most at-risk groups of climate change impacts, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said in its report released on August 20.

Authorities in Thua Thien-Hue Province have detained a group of poachers for killing wild animals in Bach Ma National National Park, Thua Thien-Hue Province.

Vietnam aims for a growth at 5-5.5 percent each year in forestry production in the 2021-2025 period, according to a Government resolution approving the investment policy for the sustainable forestry development programme in the next five years.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has completed an initial report on maritime environment and national islands during the 2016 to 2020 period, Ta Dinh Thi, director general of the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands said.

The Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh announced on August 10 it received a rare white-cheeked gibbon from local forest rangers.

It may be impossible to release the tigers which were recently found and rescued from two households in the central province of Nghe An into the wild.

About 765 trees along the To Lich River in Hanoi are being relocated for Yen Xa Wastewater Drainage Project.

An inventory of water resources on inter-provincial river basins and national will be implemented for the first time under a project which has just been approved by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh.

HCM City has licensed three more companies with approval from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to collect and treat COVID-19-related wastes to cope with their sharp increase as the pandemic continues unabated.

The northern and central regions are facing a severe heatwave which is forecast to last until August 10.

Many streets in the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Ha Long City are being polluted with piles of litter.

Authorities in Nghe An Province have found 17 tigers being kept in a private home.