The Đà River water plant was found to have flushed thousands of cubic metres of raw wastewater used to cleanse their tanks to the environment, days after it was involved in a polluted water scandal, reported Hà Nội's environment authority.
The capital city will completely eradicate the use of honeycomb charcoal by 2021 as part of its efforts to curb worsening air pollution.
A study carried out by scientists in the US has revealed worrying times are ahead. It claims by 2050, Hồ Chí Minh City will be completely submerged underwater. Three of the city's young residents give Việt Nam News their opinions on the matter.
The HCM City People's Committee has approved the cleanup of five canals full of litter and waste discharged by households living nearby.
The noxious odour and level of mud in the Tô Lịch River and West Lake in Hà Nội have decreased dramatically since nano-bioreactor technology has been applied, according to a representative of the Japan Environment and Trade Promotion Organisation (JETRO).
While other regions are promoting the use of 'green' energy, Asia is still dependent on coal to meet energy demand.
Hồ Ra Ơi, a Vân Kiều ethnic minority man in the central province of Quảng Trị's Đắk Krông District, has his own unique way of protecting the forest.
Việt Nam had been committed to protecting endangered turtles and issuing action plans to boost biodiversity since it became signatory to the Indian Ocean-Southeast Asia (IOSEA) Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding in 2001
Chief of staff of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Vũ Đăng Định said water from the Đà River was safe at a meeting yesterday in the capital.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment plans to make a full inspection of subsidence in the Mekong Delta provinces between 2020 and 2025.
A veteran assumes a new role with the same military precision as when he was in the navy, launching a campaign to classify garbage before it was recycled.
The Vietnam National Space Center and Japan's NEC and Sumitomo Corp late last week signed a contract to develop the LOTUSat-1 satellite that will help predict severe weather and survey the resulting damage.
The project will help residents in the two communes reduce the waste they release daily from 75 to 80 per cent.
