Alluvium, mud and soil brought down by floods are the reasons behind the mass fish death in central Thanh Hóa Province over the past few days, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said today.

At least three seals have been seen in the sea off the central Bình Thuận Province’s Tuy Phong District, surprising both local people and tourists in the past two weeks.

HCM City is cracking down on pollution, with the People’s Committee spelling out measures for waste control, after voters expressed anguish about the defiling of the Sài Gòn River and the People’s Council calling for heeding the lessons of Formosa.

Families living near the Formosa Industrial Park (IP) in Đồng Nai Province have been forced to drill wells for water and breathe polluted air for years because of smoke emissions and untreated waste water discharged from the IP, local media have reported.

The transportation sector must work closely with law enforcement agencies to bolster the fight against wildlife crime and reduce demand for wildlife consumption, experts said at a two-day workshop that ended on Friday in HCM City.

At least four people died, one is missing and three were injured after torrential rains swept through the northern and north-central regions over the past few days, according to the latest report from the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Police in southern Bình Phước Province have fined an agricultural business VNĐ290 million ($13,050) for discharging untreated waste water into Sài Gòn River.

Police in Lâm Đồng Province have detained and prosecuted five people following a clash that resulted in the death of a forest ranger a week ago.

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