Pak Việt Nam Company from the southern province of Đồng Nai has been caught red-handed discharging black substance – suspected to be wastewater – into Thị Vải river.

Natural disasters and environmental pollution can reduce GDP by 0.6 per cent per year from 2016-20, according to the National Centre for Socio-economic Information and Forecast (NCIF) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Since early human settlement, wild elephants have been an integral part of Việt Nam’s identity. The cultural icon has inspired poetry, music and art.

Three earthquakes struck the mountainous A Lưới District in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province on Wednesday. No damage to life and property was reported, the local disaster management cell said.

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.