A tree that is believed to be 1,000 years old was recently discovered in Vũ Quang National Park in central Hà Tĩnh Province.

The hot weaher has brought more patients to hospitals in Hà Nội in the past week due to exhaustion and summer diseases.

Two rare large-antlered muntjac have been photographed in a forest in Quang Nam Province, providing hope for the future of the species.

The population of storks as well as many other kinds of birds in a special park in the northern province of Bắc Giang has now declined by more than two thirds due to illegal firecracker explosions, says Đặng Đình Quyền, a garden keeper in Đào Mỹ Commune in the province.

The People’s Procuracy of Nha Trang City has finished the indictment to sentence Hoàng Tuấn Hải to two to seven years in prison for smuggling sea turtles.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) recently asked concerned agencies and localities to tighten the management of dyke maintenance and flood prevention for the coming rainy season.

Illegal dumping of waste and building materials has become an urgent issue in the capital city of Hà Nội, concerning local residents and officials  

Various cultural activities will take place to call on people and tourism enterprises to protect the sea environment as the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism launched a campaign entitled ‘Blue Vietnamese Sea’ yesterday in Hà Nội.

HCM City is now treating hazardous medical and industrial waste by high-tech methods at two plants,, but by 2020 the city will need additional plant capacity as well as more private investment when public funding runs out. 

Upgrades to the Chợ Gạo canal, which connects the southeastern and southwestern regions of Việt Nam, have proven ineffective after just three years of operation, experts say.

Climate change is damaging production and livestock in the country’s northeast provinces, raising the risks that the poverty rate there could increase in the next few years, according to a new study by scientists of the Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences.

Flood prevention works in HCM City between 2016 and 2020 are estimated to cost more than VNĐ96.3 trillion (US$4.2 billion), according to its Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme.    

 Fly ash from Formosa steel company (FHS) has passed quality assessments and can be used to produce cement, the environment ministry has said.