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.
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.
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.
Ngọc Linh ginseng, grown both in Nam Trà My District in Quảng Nam Province and the central highlands Kon Tum, has been named a National Brand.
Some 5,000 craft villages across the country have been seriously polluting the environment and threatening the health of residents in surrounding areas.
Government officials urged businesses to achieve sustainable development goals and come up with practical plans at a seminar about environmental protection held on June 5 in Vũng Tàu City.
A VNĐ473 billion (US$21 million) flood-prevention project in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District will be implemented in the period of 2017-2018, according to the city’s Department of Transport.
The central province of Phú Yên has restarted construction of a solid garbage treatment plant in Hòa Kiến and An Phú communes of Tuy Hòa city after a three-year delay.
The VNĐ3.3 trillion (US$143.5 million) Cái Lớn-Cái Bé dual sluice project aims to control saline intrusion and adapt to climate change in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta Province of Kiên Giang. However, experts, managers and residents are uncertain about its impact.
A fishing village has been illegally expanding on the La Ngà River in Đồng Nai Province’s Định Quán District and polluting it despite the local authorities’ prevention efforts, the Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.
Hungary will share its experience with Hà Nội to help remove oil and grease from water and purify the city’s lakes, Kovacs Karoly, president of Hungarian Water Association, said.
The Đức Tài Investment and Construction Joint-stock Company exploited limestone in the central province of Thanh Hóa during the past two years without any environmental protection measures seriously affecting local residents’ lives.
As many as 1,625 people has engaged in the Hạ Long-Cát Bà Alliance and 109 people have benefited from sustainable management and conservation of the resources with the project’s support.
Shrimp breeders in Sông Cầu Township, Phú Yên Province have strongly opposed a local seafood processing factory’s discharge of untreated wastewater into Xuân Đài Bay, recently causing mass shrimp death.
Đà Nẵng City Tourism Association insisted at a talk on Sơn Trà Peninsual tourism development on Tuesday morning that no more hotels or any kind of construction should be built on the peninsula to preserve its environment and biodiversity.
The People’s Committee of Khánh Hòa Province has imposed a fine of VNĐ3 billion (US$133,000) on Khánh Hòa Sugar Company Ltd. for violating environmental laws and contaminating lagoon water.
