Subsidence occurs on main road in Kiên Giang

Subsidence has occurred on many sections on Provincial Road No 965 in Kiên Giang Province’s U Minh Thượng District, making travel difficult.  

Water management needs to be flexible 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

US, Việt Nam in tie up for satellite observation US space agency NASA is collaborating with the Việt Nam National Space Centre for a programme on satellite observation to provide analysts and decision makers with information about environmental changes, the effects of agriculture and the health of forests and wetlands.

HCM City, Mekong Delta face serious land subsidence Land subsidence in HCM City and the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has ranged from 0.1 to 81 centimetres in the last 10 years, according to the Water Resources Management Department at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Land policies restrain Việt Nam agricultural development Scattered, small-sized land lots hampers farmers and companies from investing and fostering innovations into agriculture.

MONRE to survey Mekong Delta’s subsidence

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment plans to make a full inspection of subsidence in the Mekong Delta provinces between 2020 and 2025.

Land subsidence a big threat as Mekong Delta sucks out groundwater Land subsidence is worsening in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, and experts told a seminar in Cần Thơ City that over-exploitation of groundwater is one of the factors causing it.

Experts call for better water resources management to cope with climate change

Both climate-change adaptation and modern technological solutions are needed to actively manage water resources, deputy director of the Việt Nam Academy for Water Resources, Trần Đình Hoà, told a workshop in HCM City on October 4.

Urban areas in Mekong Delta face serious flooding High tides and land subsidence are causing serious flooding in urban areas in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta region, according to Nguyễn Hữu Thiện, an expert on the Delta's ecosystem.

Climate inaction tantamount to violence

We cannot ignore it: Climate Strike, initiated by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, has spread across the globe, and its impact has been immense.