An initiative will be carried out in Ly Son island district, Quang Ngai province, so as to help islands in the central locality to be free of carbon.

A flock of 500 darters, a species at risk of extinction, have been found at a tourist site in Buu Long ward, Bien Hoa city, the southern province of Dong Nai.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has asked all of its organisations and agencies to refrain from using plastic bags and single-use plastics starting from this month.

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Da Nang city Huynh Duc Tho on November 12 worked with Director of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Vietnam Kim Jin-oh on a project to reduce disaster risks funded by the Republic of Korea (RoK) in the central coastal city.

For the first time in almost three decades, the silver-backed chevrotain or mouse deer that is thought to be on the verge of extinction has been spotted in a jungle in Vietnam.

Urban railways are a way to cut carbon emissions in big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, according to experts from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The northeastern province of Quang Ninh is striving to promote green growth at its world natural heritage site Ha Long Bay, according to a local official.

Over 1,500 baby sea turtles have been released into the sea at Nui Chua National Park in the central province of Ninh Thuan in the first 10 months of this year, rising 36 percent year on year.

Typhoon Nakri, the sixth tropical storm forecast to hit Vietnam this year, is likely to bring heavy rain to central and south-central regions.

Denmark pledges to strengthen and expand cooperation with Vietnam in the field of energy in the coming time, said Morten Baek, Permanent Secretary at the Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate, at a press conference in Hanoi November 5.

Vietnam Energy Outlook Report 2019 (EOR), one of the outstanding results of the cooperation between Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and Denmark’s Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate, was launched in Hanoi on November 4.

Storm Matmo, which swept through the south central coast on October 30, has left one unaccounted for and 14 injured, all in Quang Ngai province, as of 8:00 am on November 1.

The noxious odour and level of mud in the To Lich River and West Lake in Hanoi have decreased dramatically since nano-bioreactor technology has been applied, according to a representative of the Japan Environment and Trade Promotion Organisation (JETRO).

The Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment (HUNRE) hosted an Asia-Pacific regional workshop on the reduction of mercury emission from coal combustion on October 31.

Matmo, the fifth storm this year, is moving west quickly and is forecast to reach the coastal areas of central Quang Ngai to Khanh Hoa provinces this evening, according to the latest report from the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre.

Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City had a meeting with Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam Elsbeth Akkerman and Dutch experts on October 28 to discuss the Netherlands’ suggestion for cooperation in sustainable flood prevention for the southern economic hub.

Vietnam and New Zealand will work together to develop and provide weather forecast bulletins based on available graphical platform and online applications in the Southeast Asian country.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang splashed out over 356 billion VND (15.35 million USD) on four afforestation projects under the National Target Programme for Climate Change Response and Green Growth for the 2016-2020 period, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Japan Association of Environemtn Assessment (JEAS) has agreed to help the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (ISPONRE) of Vietnam build capacity in environmental issues.

The 14th Multi-Pollutant Emissions from Coal Workshop, held in Hanoi on October 28, pulled together international experts, scientists and policy makers who laid stress on the significance of advanced technologies to control mercury and multi-pollutant emissions from coal combustion.