Environment

Authorities of the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau have raided 30 illegal gold mines.

Although local people in Hanoi's Xa Cau Village have earned better incomes from collecting and recycling plastic waste, they suffer from serious environmental pollution.

Phú Hội Commune is traditionally one of the busiest fishing grounds in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta during the floating water, or flood season, but this year only a few small boats ventured out.

Con Dao National Park has implemented artificial turtle hatching so far this year, helping to release 122,867 baby turtles into the sea.

A group of foreign visitors have joined with residents in Hoi An City in the central province of Quang Nam to clean local streets after Storm Noru.

Storm Noru has weakened into a tropical depression, bringing about torrential rain in the central region and many northern localities in Vietnam.

Moving to low-carbon rice production offers the highest potential for Vietnam to meet its goal of cutting methane emissions by 30% by 2030 while boosting the competitiveness of a strategic export item, a new World Bank report says.

Many central coastal provinces are preparing to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents as super typhoon Noru is entering the East Sea and heading toward the region.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has predicted that storm Noru will enter the East Sea on September 25 evening, and recommended coastal localities to brace themselves for the storm.

The central region of Vietnam is facing a rainy spell which has been forecasted to end on Sunday.

Four rare monkeys have been handed over to Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Hanoi will need about 21 trillion VND (887.27 million USD at current exchange rate) in the coming years to replace all petrol- and diesel-powered public buses with electric alternatives.

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.