The Can Gio preventive forest plays a very important role in the protection of the environment in HCM City, described as the “lung” cleaning the air and industrial waste converged from Dong Nai River upstream.

CAN THO – Experts from the Netherlands suggested four socio-economic scenarios for climate change adaptation in the Mekong Delta at a seminar held in Can Tho on Monday.

HA NOI — Only 70 per cent of Ha Noi's household waste is collected for treatment, leaving stagnation in most of the capital's rural areas.

The Xuan Huong Lake, a national beautiful landscape in Da Lat City - called the “dreamlike city of Vietnam” – has been found as seriously polluted. Though scientists have found out the reasons behind the pollution, they still cannot prescribe the lake

About one hundred people gathered in Dong Nai Province to protest the pollution from discharged waste, covering up a wastewater discharge point with sand, rocks and bricks.

Vietnamese and German experts gathered in Hanoi on April 26 to share experience in human resource training and waste treatment in Vietnam.

Environmentalists have called on residents and authorities in the northern province of Lai Chau to stop the killing of migrating storks, which are protected under international law

Over the last several days, the Tho Quang Wastewater Treatment Plant has been causing heavy pollution around residential areas in Son Tra District in the central city of Da Nang, making it unbearable for thousands of households to cope with the stinking smell.

Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces have leased forest land to enterprises to grow rubber trees, manage and protect the forests. However, while the rubber projects still cannot bring profits, the green forests have been seriously devastated.

Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department for Natural Resources and the Environment--Pham Van Khanh has admitted that the environment pollution has existed for many years, but still cannot be settled.