Việt Nam News

Lê Tấn, a farmer in Kiên Giang Province’s An Biên District, is making the best of a bad situation.  

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered ministries, sectors and localities to use their resources more efficiently to better cope with natural disasters, which are striking the country more frequently and severely due to climate change.

The water environment in the world-renowned Hạ Long Bay has been under tremendous pressure from the growing socio-economic activities in the area.

Water found in some 71 per cent of Hà Nội’s wells is contaminated with higher than permitted levels of phosphate.

More than 5,600 households in erosion-prone areas in the southernmost province of Cà Mau need to be relocated by 2020 but local authorities are struggling to find capital and land, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are struggling to find solutions to address deforestation and and development violations, which are rampant in many localities across the province.

Sixty collectors of wild medicinal and aromatic plants met in the northern province of Bắc Kạn on Thursday to report their achievements in implementing a programme titled “Enhancing Management and Benefit Flows in Việt Nam’s Wild Medicinal Products.”

Việt Nam is struggling to find solutions, especially ‘green’ solutions to address challenges in water resources management with environmental damage, climate change and unsustainable water exploitation driving the water-related crisis.

Environmental police in the Highlands Province of Lâm Đồng on Wednesday found about 40,000 tonnes of solid waste dumped illegally in the area of Đà Lạt Waste Treatment Factory in Xuân Trường Commune, Đà Lạt City.

Construction investors are often totally indifferent to the storm of dust, construction waste and general filth their projects unleash on the general public. The Ministry of Construction has taken an action as drastic as the neglect of these investors and their greedy firms.

Waste water treatment and tourism management at world heritage site Hạ Long Bay were among issues highlighted at the fifth leadership committee meeting of the Hạ Long-Cát Bà Alliance in Hạ Long City, in the coastal province of Quảng Ninh, yesterday.

A local resident in central Quảng Nam Province’s Đông Giang District handed over a red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) to the district’s forest management unit.

Local authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have stepped up efforts to prevent forest fires even as the region enters the highly risky dry season.

Authorities and people living in the coastal areas of the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have taken several measures to prevent saltwater intrusion, including building of dams.

Two sea turtles have been released to their natural habitat after being caught by fishermen in the southern province of Kiên Giang, the Economic Department of Hà Tiên Town People’s Committee announced early this week.

Nearly 1.5ha of forest trees in Cà Mau National Park in the southernmost province of Cà Mau have reportedly died since late January. Relevant agencies have not detected causes of the tree death.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and localities nationwide will organise activities to celebrate World Water Day 2018 with the theme ‘Nature for Water’ – exploring nature-based solutions to the water challenges we face in the 21st century.

Scientists have found nearly 12,000 Vietnamese marine creature species, including animals and plants, through studying the country’s marine biological resources, reported the Vietnam News Agency.