Women play a particularly important role in sorting garbage at source and minimising the use of plastic bags and other single-use plastic products in households and communities, a top HCM City environment official has said.
A co-ordinated and sustained global effort “is needed to reinforce the circular economy through action-based projects,” an international forum heard in Bangkok.
The HCM City People’s Committee has approved the construction of three plants to generate electricity from waste using advanced technologies, and work on them will start in September and October, according to the city Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
The country's total rooftop solar power capacity is expected to reach around 2,000 MW by the end of 2020, according to Viet Nam Electricity (EVN).
Authorities in southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province have agreed to burn domestic waste of Côn Đảo District instead of shipping it from the island to a landfill on the mainland.
A rescue centre has been set up for the first time in Mũi Dứa Cave on Cù Lao Chàm Island in an attempt to rescue thousands of baby swallows which fall from their nests each year.
Director of the Environmental Technology Centre under the Institute of Environmental Technology Phùng Chí Sỹ speaks to Hải quan (Customs) newspaper about measures to help business tap opportunities to develop eco-friendly products
About VNĐ4 billion (US$172,400) will be spent over the next five years to improve water supply and treatment for waste water in the southern province of Bình Dương.
Residents from Quảng Tân Commune in Central Highlands Province of Đắk Nông claim their lives are being affected by a passion fruit processing facility in the region.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta should use technology to create rice varieties resistant to bacterial leaf blight, speakers told an international conference that ended on August 20 in Cần Thơ.
The prolonged severe drought has dried up thousands of hectares of protection forest in the southern coastal province of Phú Yên, causing many forest fires.
A whale died on Monday in Vĩnh Hy Gulf of the south-central province Ninh Thuận, despite the efforts of local residents and authorities to save the animal over the past three days.
Châu Trần Vĩnh, deputy head of the Department of Water Resources Management under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment talks to Vietnam News Agency about how to sustainably manage water resources while climate change has triggered drought and salinity intrusion for coastal plains as well as seriously affected the daily lives of local people.
Green urban planning in HCM City’s inner districts should be based on a long-term vision to avoid wastage of land, reduce pollution and improve people’s living standards, a top city leader has said.
Central Việt Nam's first forest school has been launched in Sơn Trà Nature Reserve to provide an outdoor education site for school students in the central city of Đà Nẵng.
