Việt Nam News

Robust sustainable banking guidelines and urgent action by banks are needed to prevent a looming environmental and social crisis that could cripple the region’s economic growth, the World Wide Fund for Nature warned in a report on Thursday.

Việt Nam needs to implement policies of climate change mitigation in an inclusive and comprehensive way. Of that, mitigation actions might benefit the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people, experts have said.

Đà Nẵng City Department of Natural Resources and Environment announced that the change in weather resulted in fish death in the Phú Lộc River.

Some 800 litres of oil leaked into Bưng Dục spring in Chơn Thành District’s Minh Hưng Ward on Tuesday, causing pollution.

Bridgestone Vietnam has transferred 15 smart and eco-friendly trash bins to Thừa Thiên-Huế Province to promote environmental protection in the area.

Officers from Directorate of Fisheries under Agriculture Ministry and Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk People’s Committee yesterday released baby fish into Ea Súp Hạ Lake to regenerate aquaculture resources.

Việt Nam needs a national strategy to combine environmental protection with socio-economic development policies.

It has been exactly ten years since an industrial waste water treatment station was built in Tân Triều village in Hà Nội’s Thanh Xuân District. However, the plant has not operated for a single day, while residents who make their living weaving, dying and recycling, are forced to treat the waste water by themselves.

Việt Nam aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and to increase its absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) to 33 million tonnes.

Đà Nẵng's technology and science college has launched a solar-powered system on its rooftop as the first part of green roof development.

Bạch Mã National Park in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province received a rare tortoise, listed as a vulnerable species at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Quảng Trị Province is facing serious forest usurpation and deforestation as people seek to expand the land area available for farming.

An earthquake measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale was reported yesterday in the northwestern provinces of Điện Biên and Sơn La.

In a victory for turtle conservation efforts, about 421 baby turtles were released to the sea on Chàm Island yesterday.

The flooding triggered by the Doksuri storm that swept through the central region of Việt Nam 10 days ago continued to isolate a community in a remote area of Quảng Bình Province.

The daily lives of some 500 households have been disrupted and 600ha of protective forest lost due to landslides on the nearly 70km seashore of the Mekong Delta’s Kiên Giang Province in recent years, with climate change blamed for the landslides.

The Vietnamese media was lauded for playing an important role in promoting the protection of threatened wildlife, heard a seminar held in Hà Nội on Friday to reveal how media houses can incorporate social responsibility into their work and contribute to combatting wildlife crime.