Việt Nam News

A Japanese cleaning nano-technology has helped reduce the bad smell from the polluted Tô Lịch River in Hà Nội, according to online newspaper toquoc.vn.vn.

A short documentary on how to unleash the potential of sustainable tourism of Quảng Nam Province’s Thu Bồn River after the historic flood in 2000 brought a special prize for two secondary school students in the “School Ambassador in Disaster Prevention and Climate Change Adaptation” Competition 2019 on Saturday.

The HCM City’s wholesale markets of Thủ Đức (in Thủ Đức District), Bình Điền (in Bình Chánh District) and Hóc Môn (in Hóc Môn District) are scheduled to ban unprocessed agricultural products since the end of the third quarter of this year.

The area is located less than 150m from the station of the district’s protective forest management board

Experts discussed measures to promote a sustainable and effective waste management service in Southeast Asian suburban and urban areas in a conference on Wednesday in Hà Nội.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a ceremony in the northern port city of Hải Phòng yesterday to launch the first-ever National Week for Natural Disaster Preparedness and Control.

Long Sơn Co., Ltd, located in Tam Điệp City’s Yên Khánh District, the northern province of Ninh Bình, will be fined VNĐ524 million (US$22,400) for violations relating to environmental protection.

Regional cooperation will be essential in preserving the marine environment and ensuring sustainable fisheries management and food security in the ASEAN region, speakers said on Monday at an international workshop held in the central province of Khánh Hòa.

More than 500,000 marine breeders were released in Nha Trang Bay on Sunday by the People’s Committee of Nha Trang in Khánh Hoà Province.

Đà Nẵng City’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has asked the city’s authority to hand out fines to 13 hotels and restaurants for discharging hazardous wastewater into the sea.

The Chàm Islands off the coast of Hội An have since 2015 limited the number of tourists permitted to 3,000 per day to protect the vulnerable world biosphere reserve site from being overrun by boats and waste, but the area is in crisis despite these efforts. Leaders of the protected area have expressed reluctance to allow in more boats, but officials from neighbouring Đà Nẵng say they will go ahead with a plan to add a new route to the islands.

Farmers in Ninh Thuận Province, which has the largest number of cattle and sheep and goats in the country, are struggling to find natural food for their animals since prolonged hot weather has parched their pastures.

Since November 2017 I often come to visit Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in Đà Nẵng. There, in the forest’s green lungs, I made friends with the red-shanked doucs, one among 287 species of fauna at Sơn Trà.

Hà Nội residents have been pleasantly surprised with some good environmental news, as a polluted river has been cleaned up.

Iron slag and waste mud sent by Formosa Steel Plant in the central province of Hà Tĩnh to two companies in Thái Nguyên Province for recycling far exceeded Việt Nam’s hazardous threshold with a pH value of 12.5.

Instead of keeping garbage at home and waiting for waste trucks to pick it up, many people throw their trash in public areas near their houses, polluting the environment.

The black smelly water has been flowing into the sea, polluting beaches nearby and scaring tourists away