Sand mining activities of Thái Sơn Development & Investment JSC in northern Phú Thọ Province have alledgedly led to serious erosion and subsequent loss of farmland, leading to public concerns.
Leaders of parliaments in the Asia-Pacific region and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) took fact-finding trips around HCM City yesterday to learn about the impact of climate change.
Việt Nam will strive to combat the hunt and illegal trade of primates by 2025, with the goal to reducing hunting by 70 per cent.
Some 282 tonnes of clams and 14,000 cage-raised fish died en mass from last Saturday until Tuesday, Lê Thanh Hưởng, deputy chairman of People’s Committee of Kiên Lương District, Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang told Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper.
The ships pouring black mud into the Nghệ An Province coast were licenced and poured the waste to the right place, Lê Thanh Hà, deputy director of Nghi Sơn economic zone’s management board said on Wednesday.
As part of the second APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM 2) and related meeting, the Committee on Trade and Investment (CTI) hosted a Trade Policy Dialogue (TPD) on Environmental Services in Hà Nội on Thursday.
The southern province of Đồng Tháp on Wednesday extended its state of emergency as the erosion worsened, with a section of the riverbank covering some 600m affected so far.
Bắc Ninh authorities have fined two South Korean companies VNĐ333 million (US$15,000) for infringements in connection with wastewater discharge.
Mass fish deaths have been reported along the shore in Kiên Lương District and Hà Tiên Town in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang since Sunday.
Waste must be treated more effectively with advanced technology and categorised prior to treatment, city officials said at a meeting held in HCM City yesterday.
Representatives of Vietnamese and Chinese agriculture ministries have participated in a fish releasing event to boost sustainable development of fisheries in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The HCM City People’s Committee has told the Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme to go ahead and draw up plans to build a reservoir in the outlying district of Củ Chi to prevent flooding there.
Construction on a VNĐ500 billion (US$22 million) flood-prevention project in HCM City’s District 7 is expected to start in the next quarter, according to the city’s Department of Transport.
Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) and Cúc Phương National Park have successfully released 53 Java pangolins (Manis javanica) to the wild.
Many households in the central province of Quảng Bình plant local timbers in the forest instead of other kinds of trees such as cajuputs, and the way bring them billions of đồng and also help them protect local environment as well as maintain different kinds of local valuable trees.
Preserving biodiversity in Việt Nam was the main topic of discussion at a workshop yesterday in Hà Nội.
Colossal import of scrap steel was silently turning Việt Nam into an industrial landfill of the world, raising alarms on the environmental risks coming with the waste.
The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday sentenced Phạm Văn Luật, a resident in Hải Phòng City, to 12 years in prison for illegally transporting ivory, a type of banned goods, under Clause 1, Article 155 of the Penal Code.
Poor planning and management of sand mining has led to a stunning but unsurprising warning: Việt Nam is very likely to run out of sand in less than 15 years.
The People’s Committee of central Thanh Hóa Province has allowed Nghi Sơn refinery and petrochemical limited liability company to release waste water into the sea, provided it meets environmental protection requirements.
