Việt Nam News

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.

Technology and science is key to coping with future natural disasters. That was the message heard during a workshop in Hà Nội on Friday organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

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.

It may be unusual for hilly areas and islands surrounded by ocean to grapple with flooding, but historic floods last week in two of the country's best-known paradises, Phú Quốc Island and the city of Đà Lạt, sent local people and tourists into a nightmare scenario.

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.

According to initial findings, Hùng, a former banker in Bảo Lâm District, hired the other defendants to destroy nearly 6,500sq.m of 30-year-old pine forest.

Businesses which reuse materials are the lifeline of Viet Nam’s environmental future, a workshop in Hà Nội was told on Wednesday.

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.

Many people have raised concerns over the wastewater of the cleaning progress of Tô Lịch River.

Salinity and droughts will come earlier and be more severe in the 2019-20 dry season than the previous year in the Mekong Delta, according to Hoàng Phúc Lâm, Vice Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Southern localities affected by typhoon Wipha, have taken drastic measures to ensure the safety of people living in high risk areas.

A Japanese environmental expert on Thursday bathed in a section of Tô Lịch River in Hà Nội to prove the result of piloted water purification technology.

Bà Lựu Canal, one of the most polluted canals in HCM City,  was cleared of waste and an invasive growth of hyacinth by young volunteers during this year's Mùa Hè Xanh (Green Summer) campaign, which ended last week.