An environmental seminar entitle “Mangroves for the Future: Improving the Endurance Power of Ecosystem and Coastal Community – Sharing Knowledge And Experiences” was held on August 24 in Thạch Thất District.
Việt Nam Association for Urban Planning and Development is suggesting to revive Kim Ngưu River by improving the river’s water quality of a 1.2-km section at first and create a public space for local residents along the riverside.
Whenever it rains heavily, people in Hà Nội think about flooding, and for good reason. Flooding occurred because of high density of construction in the city’s inner districts and an improperly-managed sewage system.
HCM City is being slowly choked by plastic waste, with 60 tonnes generated every day and only 10 per cent of them recycled.
Residents in Kiên Giang Province have asked Phú Quốc Economic Zone Management Board to take away the licence of a waste treatment centre that is causing headaches for them.
The country’s southernmost province of Cà Mau is speeding up construction of more than 4.2km of breakwater to prevent erosion and protect residential areas along its eastern coast, the province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said last Saturday.
The Đồng Châu-Khe Nước Trong forest, in the central province of Quảng Bình is considered to be a region of high biodiversity that needs special preservation, however, after four years of research and discussion by experts and local authorities, the establishment of a nature reserve in the forest remains on paper.
Illegal dumping of industrial waste in Long Châu Commune of Bắc Ninh Province’s Yên Phong district has badly effected the lives and production of local people, reported online newspaper baotintuc.vn.
Students at Phụng Thượng Primary School in Hà Nội’s Phúc Thọ District have started a campaign to stop the use of bear gall by planting medicinal shrubs as a replacement.
Land subsidence caused by excessive groundwater extraction and rapid urbanisation is worsening flooding in HCM City.
The Quảng Trạch thermoelectricity plant, a project of Electricity of Việt Nam (EVN) in the central province of Quảng Bình, is seeking final agreement from governmental agencies to dump 2.5 million cubic metres of waste mud into the local sea area.
The Lào Cai Department of Natural Resources and Environment has proposed the provincial people’s committee fine three chemical enterprises for violating regulations on environmental protection.
The People’s Committee of Bình Thuận Province has ordered relevant agencies to tackle the problems arising from large quantities of wastes washing up along the Phan Thiết city coast, affecting tourism.
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Rain lasting an hour on Sunday evening flooded many streets in downtown Hà Nội, causing travel chaos.
The Chư Mom Ray National Park received a pig-tailed macaque (macaca leonina species), recognised as a rare species, which was handed over voluntarily by a local resident, director of the national park Võ Sỹ Chung confirmed with the online newspaper baokontum on Thursday.
Elephants in Đồng Nai are destroying crop fields and damaging farmers’ buildings – despite a 50-kilometre electric fence built to keep them out.
Đồng Nai People’s Committee has fined a Malaysian company subsidiary VNĐ9.7 billion (US$415,232) for illegal waste burial.
Residents of Vũ Hội Commune in Vũ Thư District of northern Thái Bình Province have to pass a large rubbish dump to get to the communal clinic. The pile, high as a person’s head, is located just 100 metres from the clinic and the primary and secondary schools of the commune.
Farmers in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are struggling to fight floodwaters caused by heavy rains, rising tides and water released in the wake of a dam breach in Laos.
