For over a month, multiple manufacturers based in the Tân Hồng industrial cluster in Bình Giang District of the northern province of Hải Dương have discharged untreated wastewater into irrigation canals, causing severe pollution in the section of Bắc Hưng Hải irrigation system that passes through the region.

More than 1,000 volunteers from the US Embassy, associations, organisations and universities, joined hands to pick up garbage in Thống Nhất Park Saturday morning to mark Earth Day here.

Deputy PM Trịnh Đình Dũng has ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to urgently review and issue a list of industries that pose a high risk of polluting the environment.

Garbage and wastewater pollution from factories is threatening the Lam River and its arms in the central province of Nghệ An.

Rescued bears in Việt Nam will have more living space with the inauguration of two houses with two semi-natural enclosures at Tam Đảo National Park bear reserve in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc.

HCM City has been facing a shortage of garbage collection stations, where rubbish would be collected, sorted into categories for disposal, and transported to dumping sites or treatment zones. It has to take use of empty pavements on public areas to do the job.

A rare sea turtle with serious wounds was rescued by the Xuân Thủy National Park.

Water from the Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Canal has been drawn out to the Sài Gòn River to reduce fish deaths, HCM City’s Anti-flood Centre said.

Scrap steel imports to Việt Nam in the first three months of this year increased sharply compared with last year, up more than 45 per cent in volume and 120 per cent in turnover, which poses serious environmental threat.