At least two people - an elderly woman and a child - were killed and six others injured today when a landslide buried 10 houses in Nha Trang City.

Protecting, maintaining and restoring ecosystems, especially water systems, is among the most urgent tasks for strengthening the country’s resilience to climate change, said Dr Trần Văn Giải Phóng, technical specialist at the Institute for Social and Environment Transition (ISET).

Pollution from pesticides has reached alarming levels in some provinces of the Red River Delta, known as the granary of Việt Nam’s north.

Rainfall ranging from 150mm to 400mm over the past two days has flooded communes and villages in the central provinces of Thừa Thiên-Huế, Quảng Nam, Quảng Ngãi, Bình Định, Phú Yên and Khánh Hòa.

The increasing vulnerability of Vietnamese children to climate change and natural disasters will have long-term impacts on their wellbeing, experts warned at a conference yesterday

Multilple issues are plaguing dredging projects on the Đồng Nai River Lax licencing, negligent supervision, lack of co-ordination between exploiters, ‘sand mining pirates’ free roaming without much hinder, leading to environmental damages and mounting local residents’ aggravation.

The biodiversity of Côn Đảo Island’s ecosystem are threatened by lack of awareness of local residents and over-exploitation of marine sources, the media reported.

World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and Vietnamese nature authorities today kicked off an emergency project to protect the biggest herd of elephants in the country from extinction.

Discharge of untreated wastewater and weather changes are two of the four reasons behind the recent mass fish deaths in several lakes in Hà Nội, the city’s People’s Committee said.