Environment

Japan will begin releasing cooling water from the stricken Fukushima power plant on Thursday, 12 years after one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.

A warmer and later winter has been forecasted for the northern and central regions of Vietnam this year.

The sluggish pace of a project to upgrade HCM City’s drainage system has affected local residents.

Science and technology, which has played a significant role in promoting socioeconomic development, is also the motivation and key for Vietnam to complete the net-zero emission commitment by 2050.

A group of young people in the central province of Nghe An have cleaned a seriously-polluted local lake.

HCM City is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 by adopting policies and mechanisms to transition into a green and sustainable economy.

Two elephants at Hanoi’s Thu Le Zoo have been freed from chains following calls from the public and animal rights groups to release the animals.

Vietnam's energy sector plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17-26% by 2030 and around 90% by 2050 compared to the normal development scenario.

A group of volunteers have joined to help collet rubbish around the coral reefs in the central city of Danang.

HCM City will start installing solar power systems on the roof of public agencies in September this year.

Over 1,000 local households are being threatened by severe erosion of a section of the Thao River which runs through the northern province of Phu Tho’s Lam Thao District.

The northern region will see rainy weather return later this week.

Seven Indochinese tigers at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park’s Wildlife Rescue Centre have been relocated to a new and larger conservation area.

The climate change response in Vietnam has shifted from focusing on adaptation to combining greenhouse gas emission reductions and taking advantage of opportunities to move towards a green, low carbon economy.

The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is seeking approval from the Ministry of Transport and Directorate for Roads of Vietnam to declare a landslide and subsidence emergency for many local roads.

A Vietnamese animal protection group has collected around 51,135 signatures in a petition calling for the release of two elephants being kept at Thu Le Zoo in Hanoi.

As many as 1,700 areas in northern Vietnam are vulnerable to landslides, said Hoang Phuc Lam, deputy director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Illegal construction violations have been detected in Hanoi’s outlying district of Soc Son where a serious landslide occurred recently.

The southern province of Ben Tre is planning to build a waste treatment plant with a daily capacity of 650 tonnes of rubbish as local dumping sites are facing overloading.