At the 24th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP24), Germanwatch released the most up-to-date Climate Risk Index ranking, which analyses the extent to which each country has been affected by weather-related loss events.

Bình Dương Province’s Dĩ An wastewater treatment factory opened for operation on November 30 after 18 months of construction.

Animals Asia and Hà Nội Forest Protection Division have presented hundreds of gifts for students from Phụng Thượng Primary School who took part in the tree planting contest to protect bear in Hà Nội’s Phúc Thọ District.

A new study carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) in collaboration with WWF-Vietnam, WWF-Laos and the Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (CRES) of the Việt Nam National University provides the first detailed information about the Annamite striped rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi) – a little-known lagomorph not discovered until 1995.

Thousands of residents in Nguyên Khê commune of Hà Nội’s Đông Anh District are living in “fear” due to serious environmental pollution sourced from waste water discharged from Nguyên Khê industrial complex, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

Climate change is the biggest challenge to Việt Nam and the agricultural sector, and farmers and the poor are the most vulnerable. In response, a number of measures have been taken by the country to mitigate climate change.

The Ministry of Health yesterday requested health departments in the provinces affected by Typhoon Usagi to ensure clean water supplies and prevent disease outbreaks.

Typhoon Usagi, which weakened into a tropical depression over the weekend, hit HCM City hard on Sunday, damaging electrical cables, stranding cars on streets, and flooding basements.

The People’s Committee in Đà Nẵng have imposed an administrative fine of VNĐ1.1 billion (US$47,800) on two joint-stock steel companies.