A database of energy efficiency in 280 large buildings in Việt Nam’s five biggest cities has been compiled and analysed under a four-year programme by the Ministry of Construction and the United States Agency for International Development.
A Switzerland-funded project to conserve biodiversity through sustainable trade of natural ingredients following the BioTrade principles in Việt Nam, Laos and Myanmar was launched in Hà Nội on Tuesday.
Hà Nội authorities have planned to remove polluting facilities out of the inner city, however, the process has been slowed down. Quite a few companies are reluctant to give land to authorities and move out, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.
Flooding caused by torrential rain has brought the capital city’s streets to a standstill.
Coastal communes in the southern central province of Quảng Ngãi are facing alarming environmental pollution as a result of the waste discharged from residential areas, industrial production and tourism activities.
A workshop was co-held by the Ministry of Construction and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Hà Nội yesterday to implement the action plan for green growth in the building sector.
Bags of pigs thrown into a pit in coastal Quảng Ninh Province’s Hải Hà District yesterday.
A project on sustainable forests, jointly implemented by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), has officially launched.
Hà Nội authorities have agreed for the construction department to pilot a project to recycle construction waste when the treatment of solid waste remains a challenge for the capital city during its rapid urbanisation process.
Several invasive alien species have entered Việt Nam, impacting the local environment and biodiversity, and triggering concern among the authorised agencies.
Việt Nam risks a loss of 7.2 million tonnes of rice yield and 3.2 per cent of its agricultural land by the late 21st century as a result of climate change, according to a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development forecast.
The HCM City People’s Council has passed a resolution on environmental protection and solid waste management in urban and residential areas, with the target of significantly improving the environment, an issue that has taken on urgency.
HCM City has 40 landslide locations including 23 dangerous areas near rivers and canals in eight districts, according to the city’s Department of Transport.
Floods in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are expected to occur earlier this year due to higher than average rainfall, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
Authorities in Quảng Ninh Province are worried over a decline in water levels at major reservoirs. The reservoirs have been drying up due to droughts brought on by hot weather and a lack of rain, meaning that a number of households in the province have faced shortages.
The world should not waste more time lamenting about US President Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Paris accord, in which international community pledges to keep the increase in global temperatures below 2 degrees Celcius over pre-industrial levels.
There is no evidence to show that northern Viet Nam’s recent record-breaking hot weather--the hottest in 45 years--will repeat again this summer, Lê Thanh Hải, Deputy General Director of the National Hydro-Meteorological Centre, told Sức khỏe & Đời sống (Health and Life) newspaper.
Đà Nẵng has established central Viet Nam’s first Green Technology Institute for Herb and Agricultural Gene Conservation.
Staff and volunteers at the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation (GreenViet) rescued a crab-eating mongoose from a beer can trap in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve on Tuesday.
More than four million pregnant blue swimmer crabs Monday were released into the sea off Phú Quốc Island in an effort to replenish stocks in the area.
