A passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight on Tuesday, December, 30, 2008 to test a biofuel that could lower airplane emissions and cut costs, Air New Zealand said.
The People’s Committee and the Forest Protection Bureau of central Quang Nam Province plan to lay siege to 30 hotspots of illegal logging and smuggling of wood, it was announced Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.
A forest of hairy-leafed apitong (Dipterocarpus alatus), a rare timber tree whose resin is also used by indigenous people as a waterproofing material, has been found in Sinh Ton valley in the central province of Quang Binh, the head of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park has said.
The Wastewater Treatment Plant in HCM City, which began construction in 2005, was put into operation on the 26th December, 2008, witnessed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, a representative of the Vietnamese Government and the Japanese Consul in HCM City, Masaaki Gokura.
Nature conservation in Indochina has been given a boost after the first of two small grants were approved by BirdLife International.
This species of dragonfly has been discovered on Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang by experts from the Wildlife at Risk (WAR) and the Phu Quoc National Park. They recognized just three individuals of this dragonfly species.
An estimated VND 124 trillion (US$7.4 billion) is needed to eliminate industrial pollution, a new Industrial Policy and Strategy Institute (IPSI) study shows.
A VND 6.2 trillion project for establishing an environment group by 2012 has been submitted to the government as part of the national efforts to diversify environment services.
More than a thousand new species have been discovered in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia in the last decade, according to a World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) report.
A highly diverse and ecologically important forest area stretching from Hue city to the Laos border has been protected thanks to a 4.5-year project.