The HCM City People’s Committee on Monday asked Nhà Bè district authorities to take urgent measures to prevent landslides on the left bank of the Giồng Canal – Kinh Lộ River in Hiệp Phước Commune.

The investor of Núi Cốc Lake Dam in the northern province of Thái Nguyên was told yesterday to speed up work of repairing the facility.

Authorities in Central Highlands' Đắk Nông Province have asked the Đắk Nông Aluminum Company to ensure that aluminum powder is not released into the environment.

Experts from the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) have assisted the Việt Nam Environment Administration (VEA) in building circulars on water environment management in river basins.

The portion of Ba Bò Canal that runs through Bình Dương Province has dramatically changed after its clean-up, but not in HCM City, and authorities need to keep a close eye on it if they do not want it sullied again.

Farmers in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province are protesting a slaughter project proposed to be built their neighborhood due to concerns about pollution and the loss of farming land.

Việt Nam plans to develop a low-carbon economy and include climate-change resistance work in its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the Paris climate accords.

The Mekong Delta, home to some 18 million inhabitants, is plagued by severe riverbank erosion, which has been blamed on climate change and human factors.

The Vietnamese Government and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on Monday announced the first GCF-funded project in Việt Nam, worth almost US$30 million. The project focuses on supporting vulnerable, highly disaster-exposed communities to protect themselves from the impacts of frequent typhoons and floods.