Hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops in the north of the country are being watered with polluted water.

A large amount of garbage was taken out of a drainage canal in Hà Nội after the pollution was reported by the media.

Police in Hà Nam Province on Wednesday made an extraordinary discovery: three cabin suitcases filled with venomous cobras.

Lê Tấn, a farmer in Kiên Giang Province’s An Biên District, is making the best of a bad situation.  

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered ministries, sectors and localities to use their resources more efficiently to better cope with natural disasters, which are striking the country more frequently and severely due to climate change.

The water environment in the world-renowned Hạ Long Bay has been under tremendous pressure from the growing socio-economic activities in the area.

Water found in some 71 per cent of Hà Nội’s wells is contaminated with higher than permitted levels of phosphate.

More than 5,600 households in erosion-prone areas in the southernmost province of Cà Mau need to be relocated by 2020 but local authorities are struggling to find capital and land, according to the provincial People’s Committee.