Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has ordered localities to save forests by planting 150,500 hectares of trees nationwide and preventing illegal deforestation.
HCM City has earmarked VND70.54 trillion (US$3.3 billion) for 36 projects to mitigate the effects of climate change, which is expected to severely affect the city.
Vice chairman of the Da Nang People's Committee Nguyen Ngoc Tuan has revealed that the central city will co-operate with Sweden's Boras City on a three-year environmental project.
The forests along the Viet Nam-Laos border were once home to many wild elephants. But today, barely 100 remain.
The Government has given the go-ahead to a plan to protect elephants from extinction and breed domesticated ones.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in conjunction with the World Bank last Friday officially launched a project on phasing out Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) – ozone-depleting substances – in the 2013-15 period.
Viet Nam and South Africa signed an action plan on Monday to implement a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on biodiversity conservation and protection in South Africa's capital Pretoria.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has signed a third and final contract to get rid of dioxin at the highly contaminated airport in central Da Nang City.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has given the green light to a master plan on environmental protection in craft villages from now until 2030.
A project to reduce industrial pollution in the basins of the Dong Nai, Nhue and Day Rivers kicked off in Ha Noi on April 2, 2013.