Recycling or incinerating the 10,000 tons of waste produced per day in Ho Chi Minh City is no easy task. The outdated and mostly unregulated waste collecting system only adds more obstacles to the situation.

People in Hanoi are buying expensive masks to protect themselves from serious air pollution.

Many wild animals have been found to be illegally kept at a household located in the buffer zone of the central province of Quang Binh’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Over the last few days, the air quality in Hanoi has hit hazardous levels. The smog continues to blanket the capital, with AQI indicators soaring past safe levels and seeming to stay there.

The National Hydrology Meteorological Forecast Center yesterday issued early severe weather alerts for the whole country in October.

Experts have voiced concern over a ministry proposal to destroy imported scrap that does not meet environmental standards if shipping lines fail to ship it back to the country of origin within 30 days.

Many cities/provinces reject textile and garment projects because of fear of the negative impact on the environment.

The Vietnam Environment Administration has advised members of the public, especially children, the elderly, pregnant women and those with respiratory diseases,  to limit outdoor activities due to rising pollution.

The next 10 years (2020-2030) are the time for Vietnam to sprint to implement the UN’s 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

Hanoi is promptly taking actions to improve air quality which has been assessed as very low for the past two weeks, according to municipal authorities.

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s findings have shown that air pollution is responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in Vietnam.

Post-harvest straw burning at Hanoi’s suburban areas has worsened the air pollution in the city which has reached alarming levels in recent days.

A number of ferrochrome projects existed in the past, but most of them were unprofitable.

Responding to the call of ‘cleaning up garbage' of a facebooker in March, more than 100 young people have joined hands to collect trash on Da Den beach on Son Tra peninsula in Da Nang city.

In the wake of the complicated development of riverside and coastal landslides, many experts argue that if sand exploitation is an option, the Mekong Delta must be “sacrificed”.

More than 2,000 people engaged in a programme to clean beaches in Da Nang on September 28.

Up to roughly two tonnes of fish have been found dead at a beach in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Authorities in Lam Dong Province are investigating the destruction of a pine forest in the area after various violations were found in community-based forest management.

The capital of Hanoi was named as the most polluted city in the world on September 26, with the southern largest economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City not far behind.

A sugarcane producer in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has been ordered to pay VND700 million (US$30,000) in fines for causing pollution in a local river.