Vietnam could meet its long-term energy demands by adding renewable energy sources and cutting-edge battery storage technologies to its arsenal of solutions, experts said.

 Hanoi and Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture will exchange experiences, research and apply the technology for rare-earth waste dumps in Fukuoka to small and medium-sized landfills in Hanoi city.

 The Prime Minister has recently signed a decision to add the Loc Ninh solar power project in Binh Phuoc Province to the plan to develop national power generation with capacity of 800 MWp.

VN could meet its long-term energy demands by adding renewable energy sources and cutting-edge battery storage technologies to its arsenal of solutions, experts said.

More than 26,200 ha out of the 43,500 ha of forested area in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau are facing extremely high risks of wildfire, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

IUCN held a workshop on technology and management solutions for wastewater treatment from tour boats and tourism activities in Ha Long Bay and Cat Ba Archipelago on April 5 in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh.

 Vu Quang National Park yesterday received a nine- kilogram monkey with the scientific name of Macaca assamensis or Assam macaque from the Forest Management Board of Huong Son District in the north central province of Ha Tinh.

 Singapore has seized 12.9 tonnes of pangolin scales found in a shipping container destined for Vietnam, the biggest seizure of its kind globally in five years, authorities said yesterday.

 The usage rights of greenhouse gas and air pollution interactions and synergies (GAINS) model has been transferred to the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment (DoNREs) of Hanoi, Bac Ninh, and Hung Yen. 

Several supermarkets in Hanoi have started using banana leaves to wrap vegetables as a way to protect the environment.

 Residents in Ly Son Island, Quang Ngai Province, have expressed concern about the shortage of underground water as drought looms over the island as summer starts.

 Air pollution in Hanoi is real but there is no basis to say it is at the second highest level in Southeast Asia, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan claimed at a Government press conference in Hanoi on April 2.

 Hanoi plans to set up more air quality monitoring stations in the face of worsening air pollution, according to local authorities.

More than 100 young people cleaned Da Den Beach at Danang’s Son Tra Peninsula on March 31.

 Vietnam is home to nearly 14.5 million ha of forest nationwide, announced the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on March 29.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the IUCN signed a cooperation agreement in Hanoi on March 28 on the building of a protection and breeding programme for the saola, one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet. 

 The amount of alluvium in the Mekong Delta has dropped about 65-75 percent and is forecast to decrease over 90 percent in the future, heard a workshop in An Giang province on March 27. 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will continue multiplication for a number of the Sao La, the world’s rarest wildlife were discovered at the Truong Son Mountain Range of Vietnam and Laos. 

 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Vietnam Association of National Park and Protected Area (VNPPA) held a workshop on the management of conservation sites in Vietnam in Hanoi on March 27.

 Two brothers in Hanoi’s outlying district of Ba Vi has been fined VND1.5 million (USD65.21) for posting a clip killing two rare birds on Youtube.