Việt Nam News

Hà Nội witnessed severe air pollution exceeding air quality guidelines of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on nine out of every 10 days in the first three months of 2018.

A tree that is believed to be 1,000 years old was recently discovered in Vũ Quang National Park in central Hà Tĩnh Province.

Various cultural activities will take place to call on people and tourism enterprises to protect the sea environment as the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism launched a campaign entitled ‘Blue Vietnamese Sea’ yesterday in Hà Nội.

The hot weaher has brought more patients to hospitals in Hà Nội in the past week due to exhaustion and summer diseases.

Dozens of fish were found dead in four detention basins in the past few weeks in the coastal province of Quảng Ninh, emanating a stench.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has sent an urgent message to the Peoples’ Committees of cities and provinces, urging them to take measures to protect forest and prevent illegal forest destruction.

Members of the Cần Thơ City People’s Committee and a National Assembly committee have recommended building new landfills and concentrated waste treatment plants that meet national standards to preserve environmental quality in the city.

Stormy weather hit the mountainous Thường Xuân District in the central province of Thanh Hóa on Tuesday evening, causing the collapse of an electrical pole and a 65-m-high base transceiver station (BTS).

A research exhibition titled “Plastic Matters: Wild Lives" is on display at the International Centre of Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) in the central city of Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh Province.

The Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng will carry out an action programme for sustainable forest management in its two coastal districts under the project “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD+).

The number of forestry law violations in the first four months of 2018 declined by 31 per cent from last year to 4,226, reported the Việt Nam Administration of Forestry.

HCM City generates nearly 2,000 tonnes of construction waste each day, but only a minimal amount is collected and treated while the remaining amount is dumped or freely transferred without official oversight, according to the city’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has ordered ministries and the people’s committee to tighten control over sand and gravel exploitation to manage agricultural land and protect forests.

Noise pollution is worsening in HCM city, posing health risks and contributing to social disorder.

Mineral exploitation on one hand has made certain contributions to economic development of northern mountainous Hà Giang Province over the past years but has left serious corollary to the environment and social life of local people due to poor management, the Vietnam News Agency reports.  

The central province, in co-operation with the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation, GreenViet, began an urgent conservation project for two herds of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) in a forest of Núi Thành District’s Tam Mỹ Tây Commune.

HCM City is now treating hazardous medical and industrial waste by high-tech methods at two plants,, but by 2020 the city will need additional plant capacity as well as more private investment when public funding runs out. 

The southernmost province of Cà Mau is taking preventive measures to manage pollution hotspots at industrial zones and clusters, intensive shrimp-farming establishments, and aquaculture processing facilities.