A downpour on Thursday caused a landslide that killed two people in Bát Xát District of the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai.

Erosion along river banks in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp has caused more than VNĐ8.2 billion (US$353,800) in property damage this year, according to the province’s Irrigation Sub-department.

The Ministry of Construction has announced a national action plan on green growth in 2020-2030 focusing on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and implementing the Paris Agreement.

Two rare turtles meant to end up as a fine meal in central Quảng Bình Province have been rescued after a man found them at a local market and decided to try and save them.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau is planning to spend more than VNĐ19 trillion (US$819.56 million) on 55 “priority” projects that address climate change and natural disaster prevention.

A century ago, a woman from Thượng Trạch Village married a man in Liên Chểu Village, Triệu Sơn Commune, Triệu Phong District, connecting the fate of the two villages by the craft of vermicelli-making and an environmental problem. 

The beginning of the rainy season has increased land erosion along rivers and canals in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Enhancing State management of climate change is one of the major measures in the national plan on climate change adaptation for 2021-2030, with a vision towards 2050, recently issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Fourty-one of the country's 63 provinces have established a forest-protection and development fund to look after nearly 6 million hectares of trees.