The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will chair the setting up an ocean monitoring system, using capital from the Taiwanese Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Steel Plant’s compensation for its toxic spill’s impacts.
After five years of operation, the Bưng Riềng landfill in Xuyên Mộc District has started leaking wastewater and spreading foul smells in the southern province.
The National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecast has reported that in the past six hours, tropical storm Mawar has remained almost unchanged.
A total of 300,000 ocean fingerlings were released into an area of Tam Giang Lagoon in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province, aiming to produce a swift recovery for local seafood resources after the Formosa toxic spill in 2016.
Chàm Island Marine Protected Area has started conservation of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) by hatching 450 eggs taken from Côn Đảo Island.
There have been at least five clashes recently between wild elephants in search of food and tame elephants in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk’s Buôn Đôn District.
Plans to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change in the northern part of Việt Nam were the focus of a conference held in Hà Nội yesterday.
The city has seen positive results from its programmes on “building a civilized city without waste”, according to participants at a meeting held by HCM City’s Việt Nam Fatherland Front Committee on Tuesday (August 29).
The People’s Committee of southwestern Tây Ninh Province has proposed the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) add 15 solar power projects to the provincial planning scheme on electricity development in the 2011-15 period, with a vision through 2020.
A planned wood-pulp plant in Bình Sơn district would destroy 50ha of nipa palm forest, causing pollution, loss of biodiversity, and irrevocable damage to local lifestyles, biologists and residents warn.
The Vinatex International Toms Textile Garment Co Ltd plans to set up a waste water pipe in Hải Thọ Commune, but local residents aren’t happy.
Việt Nam has been making efforts to mobilise international and domestic sources in order to support national energy development and achieve a sustainable energy system with low emissions, experts have said.
A Đà Nẵng resort will soon become the country’s first solar-powered entertainment complex, highlighting the coastal city’s push towards renewable energy sources.
Five of 11 marine product processing firms from the southern coastal province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu have paid compensation to 33 fish breeders who had sued the companies for losses caused by waste discharged from the firms’ plants.
Bình Thuận Province has reaped enormous economic benefits from titanium mining, but the industry has also damaged the environment badly, degraded the lives of local residents.
Water governance in APEC economies, climate change, food security and best practices in agriculture are among the topics to be discussed at the first APEC Water Resources Authorities Meeting for Food Security that opens today in Cần Thơ.
Five o’ clock in the afternoon is the time when the Giá Rai General Hospital in the southern province of Bạc Liêu starts to get crowded, not only with inpatients but also visitors who come here to take a stroll.
“Dirty” and “stinky” are the two words most used to describe the Thọ Quang Port in the central Đà Nẵng City over the last decade.
A red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) was handed over to the Cúc Phương National Park in the northern province of Ninh Bình by forest rangers in Phú Lộc district in central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế on Monday.
The People's Committee of Đồng Tháp Province has directed relevant agencies and district authorities to ensure farming of white-leg shrimp in freshwater zones is not expanded since the saltwater discharged by these farms affect water bodies and crops.
