Vietnam is listed amongst the top ten countries with the worst air
pollution in the world, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance
Index (EPI) released during this year's World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland.
The La family living beside the Da river in Quynh Nhai district of
northern mountainous Son La province has caught a strange bird coming
from the nearby rocky mountain.
The Lepironia articulate grass field in Phu My commune, Kien Luong
district, the southern province of Kien Giang, has received the first
flocks of red-headed cranes.
The Vietnam Environment Administration on Jan. 12 officially launched
the largest ever biodiversity conservation project, aiming to establish a
biodiversity corridor in three central provinces of Quang Nam, Quang
Tri and Thua Thien-Hue.
The governments of Australia, the United Kingdom and Denmark will
provide Vietnam with aid worth 93 million USD to implement phase III of
the National Goal Programme (NGP) on Clean Water and Environmental
Hygiene.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged the National Committee on
Climate Change to promptly complete a national action plan on climate
change, while chairing the committee’s first session in Hanoi on
Jan. 11.
A school of about 20 Irrawaddy dolphins has been sighted around the Ba
Lua Archipelago in the protected Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve, the
southern province of Kien Giang.
Biodiversity and the natural environment in central Vietnam are being
increasingly degraded due to economic development, according to a recent
study by the Vietnam Environment Administration's Biodiversity
Conservation Department.
Icy weather brought winter chills to the Mau Son Tourism Area in
mountainous Lang Son Province on Jan 5 morning after a severe cold spell
hit northern Vietnam, according to the provincial Hydro-Meteorological
Forecasting Centre.
A severe cold spell has embraced northern and central regions and will
linger over the coming 3-5 days, according to the National Hydro
Meteorological Forecast Centre.