The Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention has sent an urgent letter to Hòa Bình Hydropower Company to start discharge water as the water level in reservoir is high.

HCM City is creating favourable conditions for investors to reuse and recycle garbage to produce electricity, according to Nguyễn Thành Phong, Chairman of the city People’s Committee.

 Đá Đen reservoir, which supplies water to 90 per cent of the people in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province, is at risk of being severely polluted.

The northern mountainous province of Sơn La should mobilise different resources and overcome its current difficulties to enhance biodiversity protection, said an environment official.

Việt Nam has huge potentials in terms of geography and wind power resources to generate electricity, experts have said.

 Some 40 black shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes), divided into three herds, have been found living on Chứa Chan Mountain in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Xuân Lộc District.

Hà Nội’s iconic Hoàn Kiếm Lake has been severely polluted through the years and must be cleaned to save the threatened living creatures there, experts said.

Sixty-eight different wild animals were released on Thursday on the islands in Bái Tử Long National Park in the northern Quảng Ninh Province’s Vân Đồn District.

Polluted water may be a reason for the mass fish deaths in Đầm Dơi District in southernmost Cà Mau Province, the province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment said on Wednesday.