Despite soaring volumes of waste and growing demand for recycled materials, Việt Nam continues to send much of its trash to landfill. Policymakers, businesses and communities now face a turning point: rethink waste as a resource or suffer the consequences of inaction.

Hồ Kiên Trung, Deputy Director of the Department of Environmental Pollution Control (under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), spoke to VietnamPlus e-newspaper on the necessary measures to improve waste sorting and treatment, especially in major cities.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has asked the People’s Committees of Lào Cai, Tuyên Quang and Phú Thọ provinces as well as Hà Nội to ensure safety downstream during the operation. 

The elongated tortoise, belonging to the Testudinidae family, is listed as an endangered, precious, and rare forest animal.

According to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, due to the impact of Tapah, the northern mountainous and midland areas are forecast to see moderate to heavy rain on Tuesday, with some locations experiencing torrential downpours.

Deputy director of the Department of Nature Conservation and Biodiversity under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Dr Lê Văn Hữu said Việt Nam’s biodiversity is highly diverse and serves as a crucial 'green home.'

HCM City is stepping up efforts to improve its environmental quality with a series of comprehensive and sector-specific solutions, according to the city’s Department of Agriculture and Environment.

After five months of implementation (from April to September this year), the programme has brought together 25 enterprises and 24 mentors, achieving many positive outcomes.

Hồ Kiên Trung, Deputy Director of the ministry’s Environment Department, reported that only 32 of 63 cities and provinces have piloted household waste sorting. In many rural areas, households continue to handle waste themselves, using it as animal feed or bedding or through burial and open burning.

Every year, the floodwaters that arrive in August and September bring significant disruption, overwhelming rice fields and homes and posing immense challenges to the rural economy. But the province has chosen adaptation over resistance.

These species hold high conservation value and play an important role in maintaining ecological balance in the forests.

The draft resolution is expected to be submitted to the city’s People’s Council for consideration at its year-end 2025 session, with implementation scheduled to begin in 2026.

A tropical depression in the northern East Sea is expected to intensify into a storm this weekend, threatening central Việt Nam with strong winds, rough seas and torrential rain.

Việt Nam has shown strong commitment to the international community by joining the Global Cooling Commitment 2023.

The Dugong (sea cow) population in HCM City’s Côn Đảo Island, the only known habitat of the species in Việt Nam, is facing an alarming decline and could disappear entirely without timely intervention, according to conservation experts and local authorities.

Heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong gusts are forecast to lash many regions throughout Monday.

The fees apply to the sea and islands within the boundaries of Nha Trang Bay, stretching from Kê Gà Cape to Cù Hin Cape, excluding strictly protected zones within the Nha Trang Bay Marine Protected Area.

A biodiversity survey in Đắk Lắk has revealed hundreds of rare and endangered species at the Ea Sô Nature Reserve and Krông Năng Watershed Protection Forest, including the rediscovery of the critically endangered Vietnamese mouse-deer.

This activity is one of the iconic ecotourism products of the southern archipelago, which was once home to an infamous war prison in the 20th century.

The plan includes synchronised projects for wastewater collection and treatment, water replenishment and landscape enhancement.