Việt Nam News

Hundreds of fishing vessels were forced to stay ashore in the province’s Hội An City for the past six days due to sedimentation of the estuary, which blocked entry.

Việt Nam accounts for 87 of the 163 new species of animals and plants discovered in the Greater Mekong region, according to a report released on Monday by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

The Institute for Nanotechnology-Việt Nam National University HCM City said yesterday that it has made a system to automatically monitor salinity in rivers in the Mekong Delta and set off an alarm if the level is too high.

At least two people - an elderly woman and a child - were killed and six others injured today when a landslide buried 10 houses in Nha Trang City.

Protecting, maintaining and restoring ecosystems, especially water systems, is among the most urgent tasks for strengthening the country’s resilience to climate change, said Dr Trần Văn Giải Phóng, technical specialist at the Institute for Social and Environment Transition (ISET).

Pollution from pesticides has reached alarming levels in some provinces of the Red River Delta, known as the granary of Việt Nam’s north.

Rainfall ranging from 150mm to 400mm over the past two days has flooded communes and villages in the central provinces of Thừa Thiên-Huế, Quảng Nam, Quảng Ngãi, Bình Định, Phú Yên and Khánh Hòa.

The increasing vulnerability of Vietnamese children to climate change and natural disasters will have long-term impacts on their wellbeing, experts warned at a conference yesterday

Multilple issues are plaguing dredging projects on the Đồng Nai River Lax licencing, negligent supervision, lack of co-ordination between exploiters, ‘sand mining pirates’ free roaming without much hinder, leading to environmental damages and mounting local residents’ aggravation.

The biodiversity of Côn Đảo Island’s ecosystem are threatened by lack of awareness of local residents and over-exploitation of marine sources, the media reported.

World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and Vietnamese nature authorities today kicked off an emergency project to protect the biggest herd of elephants in the country from extinction.

Discharge of untreated wastewater and weather changes are two of the four reasons behind the recent mass fish deaths in several lakes in Hà Nội, the city’s People’s Committee said.

The 2017 Eco-products International Fair (EPIF) is scheduled to be held in HCM City from May 11-13, the organisation revealed at a press briefing in Hà Nội today.

The Bình Thuận administration has sought to allay concerns over the proposed dumping of 1.5 cubic metres of “materials” into the ocean, saying these are “natural sea sediment,” not industrial waste. 

Việt Nam has a long list of tasks to fulfill in order to meet its commitments to reduce 8 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under the historic Paris Agreement, Jenty Kirsch Wood, senior technical specialist of Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change of UNDP, said at workshop in Hà Nội yesterday.

Việt Nam is going through a construction boom, with apartment and office buildings mushrooming, and energy efficiency is imperative, Nguyễn Công Thịnh, head of the Ministry of Construction’s science, technology and environment department, told a seminar in HCM City yesterday.

Experts, business representatives and authorities gathered in Hà Nội yesterday at a workshop jointly organised by the Ministry of Construction and the Danish Embassy to Việt Nam to seek ways to promote energy-efficient construction. 

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked localities in the central coastal regions to take drastic measures to minimise losses caused by on-going floods.