Việt Nam News

Various locations in Krông Ana District in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk have become overloaded with trash, upsetting local residents while posing a serious environmental threat, reported online Dân Trí newspaper.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has called on provinces in the south central coastal and Central Highlands regions to take measures to minimise the impacts of drought on summer-autumn crops.

Farmers have been still struggling to maintain agricultural production during prolonged hot weather in the coastal central province of Ninh Thuận.

The operation of hydropower dams must not have negative impacts on public security or production, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has said.

Hồ Phi Quyết dons her boots and gloves, and picks up a big bag every weekend to collect rubbish around his neighbourhood

Châu Trần Vĩnh, deputy director of the Water Resources Management Department, under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, talks to Nhân Dân newspaper about the need to adopt a flexible plan to cope with the severe droughts in the Mekong Delta

Fresh water supplies are being transported from HCM City to Mekong Delta provinces that have been affected by severe saltwater intrusion during the dry season.

Kim Sơn National Landscape Site in the central province of Thanh Hóa has been seriously impacted by legal quarrying activities, reported online Vietnam Business Forum magazine.

The General Department of Environment under the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has launched a new application called Envisoft to track environmental stats.

Provinces in the Mekong Delta are taking prompt action to help local residents adapt to drought and saltwater intrusion during the dry season.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Lâm Đồng is seeking more than VNĐ127 billion (US$5.5 million) from the Government to repair and dredge irrigation projects and water supply projects in rural areas during the peak drought season.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ seeks to borrow US$25 million from the World Bank to expand its local water supply network in the 2025-30 period under a proposed water project to be funded by the bank.

Lâm Đồng Province is mulling solutions to protect its forests damaged by fires and slash-and-burn agriculture. 

PhD Mai Văn Khiêm, director of the National Centre for Meteorology, Hydrology and Weather Forecast talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper on the need to raise the quality of the weather forecast.

The southern region, including HCM City, is suffering from a heat wave which is predicted to peak in late March and early April, according to the Southern Hydro-Meteorological Station.

Participants at a recent conference in Hà Nội called for smarter energy choices, given the impacts of coal power generation on air quality and air pollution’s influence on human health.

Lại Hồng Thanh, deputy head of General Department of Geology and Minerals and Nguyễn Thế Chinh, head of Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment, talk to the Vietnamese Government website about mineral resource management

Along with Mekong Delta, the central region will suffer prolonged drought and saline intrusion during the rest of this year’s dry season, experts warned.