A community clean-up event to mark Earth Day brought together more than 2,000 volunteers from associations, organisations and universities besides local residents, who picked up garbage at 12 locations in HCM City yesterday.

Việt Nam is reviewing and updating the country’s carbon emission target to better comply with the Paris agreement on climate change and prepare for the global assessment later this year.

Smart energy is one of the most important factors in making over HCM City as a smart city, especially in the context of climate change, a seminar heard on Friday.

Construction on the Vĩnh Tân 4 thermal power plant in the southern province of Bình Thuận is on schedule and has met both international and Vietnamese standards on environmental protection, announced Electricity of Việt Nam (EVN).

Land-based solutions are urgently needed to address the leakage of plastic waste into the ocean and other waterways, experts said on Thursday (April 19) at a workshop held in HCM City.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) recently asked concerned agencies and localities to tighten the management of dyke maintenance and flood prevention for the coming rainy season.

 Dương Đông, the largest river that supplies water for Phú Quốc Island in southern Kiên Giang Province, is polluted with garbage and waste water.

A Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU) for a master plan on improving the sewerage system in the central province of Hà Tĩnh was signed between Việt Nam and South Korea on Monday.

Masses of dead fish were found in central Quảng Trị Province’s communes of Triệu Vân, Triệu An, and Gio Hà, as well as in Cửa Việt Township late last month.