The beginning of the rainy season has worsened land erosion along rivers and canals in the Mekong Delta.

The beginning of the rainy season has increased land erosion along rivers and canals in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Paintings, photos and posters created by children aged 6-14 are on display at an exhibition calling on people to protect wildlife.

The State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) proposed that an audit on water resources in the Mekong River basin be conducted by the agency called "ASOSAI's cooperative environmental audit in Southeast Asia in the 2020-2021 period", at the 55th Executive Board meeting of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI), which was held in the form of a teleconference on July 27.

Various research and monitoring programmes have been implemented at the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve in HCM City, towards sustainable development and biodiversity protection.

Enhancing State management of climate change is one of the major measures in the national plan on climate change adaptation for 2021-2030, with a vision towards 2050, recently issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Fourty-one of the country's 63 provinces have established a forest-protection and development fund to look after nearly 6 million hectares of trees.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has suspended wildlife imports and ordered the closure of illegal wildlife markets.

The relocation of factories posing risks of pollution from residential areas was necessary and more public space should be created, heard participants at a seminar held in Hanoi on July 23.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the People’s Committee of the central province of Nghe An jointly held a conference on July 22 on strengthening the measures responding to drought, saline water and natural disasters in the north-central region.

The fatalities in serious flooding and landslide caused by prolonged torrential rains over the past few days in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang increased to five as of 15:00 on July 21, according to the office of the national steering committee for natural disaster prevention and control.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has been compiling a directive of urban air pollution control which is set to be issued in August.

Air pollution in big cities such as Hà Nội and HCM City has become worse in recent years and reached alarming levels on many days, affecting people’s health.

Close to 55,000 ha of crops in the central region are lacking in water, according to the Directorate of Water Resources at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

On July 10, police caught workers of Shing Mark Vina Ltd Company carrying more than 3 tonnes of industrial solid waste to a burning kiln in the factory.

The central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Ha Tinh continued to suffer high temperatures, badly affecting local production and daily life.

Rivers in northern provinces are severely polluted, according to the Việt Nam Environment Administration.

The Chàm Island’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board has released a female Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys Olivacea) – an endangered species – after five months of care at the Đà Nẵng-based SaSa Marine animal rescue team.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment of southern Binh Duong province said it had fined 87 facilities for environmental violations in the first half of 2020.

Natural disasters have cost Vietnam’s northern mountainous areas about 610 billion VND (26.3 million USD) so far this year, compared to 753 billion VND last year.