Scientists have found that northern Vietnam is one of the areas most populated by prehistoric plants in East Asia, containing species which have have been around from some dozens to hundreds of million years ago. 

 Vietnam could cut down 6 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions through the implementation of the ‘Green Office’ Initiative, the Asian Institute of Technology in Vietnam (AIT-VN) said at a workshop in Hanoi on November 7. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has once again emphasised the importance of protecting the marine environment while chairing a meeting on coastal erosion and sediment deposition at river mouths in central coastal provinces from Nghe An to Binh Thuan.

 Many rare wild animals at Cu Chi Wildlife Rescue Station in Ho Chi Minh City have been found living in poor condition while the numbers are falling sharply. 

 Vietnam will undertake many adaptation activities to increase its resilience to climate change, enabling it to contribute more to mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

 Farmers in the central province of Nghe An are worried about wild elephants which have returned to find foods at their fields over the last couple of days. 

Tran Hong Ha, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, suggested assigning certain enterprises to manage and sell the waste abandoned at local ports within two months. However, no one would buy the toxic waste.

 Da Nang has launched a campaign to call on the community to ‘Say No’ to single-use plastic products to deal with pollution and waste treatment costs.

 Protecting pangolins from the wildlife trade is a difficult task.

 Authorities in the southern province of Cà Mau do not agree that Cà Mau City’s garbage treatment plant should extend its shutdown to conduct repairs.

 Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature and the services that power and sustain us to the brink, according to the WWF’s 2018 Living Planet Report.

 Tri Nguyen Island in Nha Trang Bay is being littered with rubbish from households and boats.

 The expenditure for environmental protection amounted to VND72.42 trillion in 2013-2018, or VND14.5 trillion annually. 

 The HCMC Department of Transport will devise a scheme to control emissions from motorbikes if the municipal government gives the agency the green light, reported Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper.

The Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies will co-organise the Hanoi Forum 2018 from November 8-11 in a bid to seek more measures to respond to climate change and boost sustainable development.

 Hanoi Urban Environment Company in Xuan Son Commune (Urenco 6) has been caught discharging untreated waste water into the environment in Ba Vi District, Hanoi.

 The southern province of Binh Duong has become the first and only one in Vietnam to be named a Smart21 community for 2019 by the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).

 Lawmakers have decided to raise the environmental tax on a number of commodities from January 1, 2019.

 The Ministry of Finance has asked the Ministry of Transport not to grant business licences to shipping lines that transport scrap that includes waste and pollutants to Viet Nam.

 Nha Trang Bay is facing serious pollution caused by a drain from a surrounding residential area.