ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
Vietnam’s coastal forest coverage reaches 17 percent
26/07/2018|11:16:00
Vietnam planted a total 12,385ha of coastal forest between 2015-2017 via climate change response and coastal forest protection project for 2015-2020, which raised the coastal forest coverage from 16.9 percent in 2014 to 17 percent last year.
Vietnam Sea and Islands Week 2018: Keep Ocean Blue
04/06/2018|11:07:00
Under the theme "Keep Ocean Blue" - the 10th ceremony on the occasion of the World Ocean Day and Vietnam Sea and Islands Week 2018 will be taken place in Quang Ninh province. This is an annual social and political event having great meaning, as a call to remind every Vietnamese on protection of the sovereignty of the sea and islands, protection of environment and marine natural resources.
Waste treatment delayed in Vietnam
30/05/2018|11:04:00
Poor infrastructure investment in waste treatment has kept Vietnam in the list of five countries who together discharge more solid waste, particularly plastic, into the ocean than the rest of the world combined. The other four countries are China, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.
Hanoi faces increasingly harmful air quality
21/05/2018|02:44:00
Hanoi suffered from air pollution most of the days in in the first quarter of this year, according to a report from the Hanoi-based Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID).