The Government is preparing a financial support plan for traders and fishermen who could not sell frozen fish due to the toxic spill from the Formosa steel plant off the coast of four Central provinces.
Whether it is for power generation or irrigation, all upstream developments on the Mekong River put Việt Nam at risk as the last downstream country, experts said yesterday.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ratified the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. The agreement went into force globally yesterday.
Many of the lakes in Hà Nội have been cleaned up, but the water is still contaminated with organic pollutants, the municipal Department of Construction has said.
Police of the Hà Nội waterways traffic department and at the district level yesterday seized 15 boats operating illegally to extract sand from the Hồng (Red) River.
Hà Tĩnh is asking for urgent funds from the central government to assist the local economy after repeated floods occurred in October and early this week.
Inflammable and explosive materials found in households that earn their living through rubbish collection is endangering the safety of residents, but many underestimate the potential risk.
Phúc Sơn Manganese, Mineral and Mechanics JSC has not reinforced the embankments and dredge sludge as directed.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) today submitted to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc a report on water release by the Hố Hô hydropower plant.
How to improve the quality of natural capital is a challenge and also a target that Viet Nam is aiming for to ensure rapid and sustainable development.
Global populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles may decline by two-thirds by 2020, all within a 50-year period, including iconic species in the Greater Mekong region, such as the Irrawaddy dolphin and tiger, according to the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature’s Living Planet Report 2016
Significant parts of a dyke system in central Quảng Trị Province was eroded by flooding early this month, threating the lives and crop of residents.
The mass fish deaths reported in Linh Đàm Lake in Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District are not related to its water quality, Hà Nội Environment Protection Branch officials said.
Natural forest area, located in zone 1668 and 1674 in Quảng Sơn Commune of Đắk Glong District in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông, has gradually vanished.
Việt Nam has reached considerable improvement on policy framework to push up forest and forestryland tenure, acknowledge the authority of forest growers and managers, a Việt Nam Academy of Forest Sciences (VAFS) official said.
A large number of fish have been found dead in Linh Đàm Lake in Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District, with locals claiming polluted water was the main reason.
Việt Nam will lose nearly 39 per cent of the total area of Cửu Long (Mekong) River delta – the biggest rice granary of the country if the sea level rises 100cm by the end of the century.
Việt Nam has initially outlined five major goals to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Residents who live around Hà Nội’s Văn Quán Lake are complaining that the lake, once a beautiful spot, has become very polluted and is stinking up its surroundings.
