Việt Nam News

A pulmonologist said that daily exposure to dust can severely affect people’s health, causing damage to the lining of the respiratory tract or leading to pneumonia, lung infection and pulmonary fibrosis.

The project was funded by the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMWK), under the International Climate Initiative (IKI), and implemented by the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) from 2019 to 2023.

Việt Nam passed a national action plan on circular economy, with a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent of the total national income and reuse and recycle, and treat 85 per cent of the plastic waste.

Improving policy and communication strategies on wildlife protection and management was the main theme of a high-level policy dialogue taking place in Hà Nội on March 24.

The competition attracted 28 teams of students from 21 universities, colleges, and academies nationwide participating.

Residents of Đô Vinh Ward in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận have been living with high intensity of dust released from a nearby sugar factory.

According to a report by Dân Việt newspaper, the elephants have caused damage to numerous trees in gardens and farming fields at Thạch Màng Hamlet, located in the Tân Lợi Commune of the Đồng Phú District.

At a forum on the International Day of the Forest yesterday in Hà Nội, Phạm Hồng Lượng, chief of office of the General Department of Forestry, stressed the importance of raising awareness about the role of forests in human life to work together in forest protection and sustainable forest exploitation.

This year, the theme of World Water Day is “Accelerating Change” which aims to raise awareness and provide education about the global water crisis.

The surveys, conducted from February 10-15, aimed to collect information on the population, distribution, and habitat of gray-shanked douc langurs.

Sea turtles have been included in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Currently, Việt Nam has more than 3.3 million hectares of forest and unallocated forest land which are temporarily managed by commune people's committees.

The UN 2023 Water Conference, which takes place from March 22-24 in New York, will focus on encouraging and supporting countries to achieve water-related goals and targets approved internationally for the 2018-28 period.

According to the city's sub-department of environment protection, the plastic waste recycling formula is part of a project funded by the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) and implemented through International Development Enterprises between 2021 and 2024.

This decision has been incorporated in the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 and other relevant documents.

The HCM City People’s Council has discussed feasible measures to address the issue of encroachment into drainage systems and litter in the Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Canal.

Three men involved in the illegal trading of pangolins, a critically endangered species, have been arrested.

Phạm Anh Tuấn, director of the Xuân Liên Natural Reserve Management Board, said that a project on the investigation and preservation of species of the civet family (Viverridae) in the natural reserve has been implemented since 2021.