Construction of a reservoir to collect water leaking from the Hòn Rọ dumping site in the central Khánh Hoà Province’s Ninh Hoà Commune must be completed soon, the People’s Committee has said.
Smoke from charcoal furnaces is threatening the environment around Cư M’gar District in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Lắk, affecting residents’ health.
Two pig farms in the central province of Hà Tĩnh’s Can Lộc District have been asked to halt operations after they were found to be polluting the area’s reservoir water.
For over a month, multiple manufacturers based in the Tân Hồng industrial cluster in Bình Giang District of the northern province of Hải Dương have discharged untreated wastewater into irrigation canals, causing severe pollution in the section of Bắc Hưng Hải irrigation system that passes through the region.
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More than 1,000 volunteers from the US Embassy, associations, organisations and universities, joined hands to pick up garbage in Thống Nhất Park Saturday morning to mark Earth Day here.
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Deputy PM Trịnh Đình Dũng has ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to urgently review and issue a list of industries that pose a high risk of polluting the environment.
Garbage and wastewater pollution from factories is threatening the Lam River and its arms in the central province of Nghệ An.
Rescued bears in Việt Nam will have more living space with the inauguration of two houses with two semi-natural enclosures at Tam Đảo National Park bear reserve in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc.
HCM City has been facing a shortage of garbage collection stations, where rubbish would be collected, sorted into categories for disposal, and transported to dumping sites or treatment zones. It has to take use of empty pavements on public areas to do the job.
A rare sea turtle with serious wounds was rescued by the Xuân Thủy National Park.
Water from the Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Canal has been drawn out to the Sài Gòn River to reduce fish deaths, HCM City’s Anti-flood Centre said.
Scrap steel imports to Việt Nam in the first three months of this year increased sharply compared with last year, up more than 45 per cent in volume and 120 per cent in turnover, which poses serious environmental threat.
Việt Nam needs to improve the quality of weather forecasting and enhance international co-operation to prepare for natural disasters, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said.
The central province’s environmental department has ordered three titanium exploitation companies to suspend their operations which have gone on for the last three years despite expired licences.
The El Nino phenomenon is highly likely to occur late this year, causing unpredictable storms during the second half of the rainy season in the autumn months, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said.
Most Vietnamese cities lack the capacity to confront climate change challenges, experts say, calling for greater preparedness efforts.
The many mineral exploitation projects in the central region of Việt Nam, either those legally licensed or unauthorised ones, have made a tangible impact on farmlands, particularly in the central provinces of Bình Định and Quảng Nam.
Thirty two industrial zones were founded in Đồng Nai Province last month and 30 of them are equipped with proper wastewater treatment plants, the provincial people’s committee declared on Thursday.
Various rivers in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc are getting polluted by waste water used by households for daily chores and from trade villages.
The Centre for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis in HCM City and the Sài Gòn River Tunnel Management Centre signed an agreement on Monday to work together to put up air and water quality readings on LED boards around the city.
