Vườn mai, hoa kiểng được trồng tại bãi rác Đông Thạnh.
Cách đây khoảng 10 năm, nhắc tới bãi rác Đông Thạnh, người ta nghĩ tới ô nhiễm môi trường, là mùi hôi, là sự than phiền của người dân sống xung quanh bãi rác… Thế nhưng giờ đây, một màu xanh ngút ngàn đang phủ xanh bãi rác Đông Thạnh, khiến bất kỳ ai có dịp ghé thăm cũng phải ngỡ ngàng…
A bauxite megaproject in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has been making losses totaling VND3,696 billion (US$165 million) in the last three years, but the developer is unconcerned, believing that it will start generating profits in 2017.
A bauxite megaproject in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has been making losses totaling VND3,696 billion (US$165 million) in the last three years, but the developer is unconcerned, believing that it will start generating profits in 2017.
Vietnam currently has two major bauxite mining projects, Nhan Co in Dak Nong Province and Tan Rai in Lam Dong Province, both developed by Vinacomin, the country’s state-run coal and minerals giant.
Bauxite, an aluminum ore, is the world’s main source of aluminum.
Vietnam needs assistance from foreign scientists in its efforts to protect the environment, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha remarked at an international conference on environmental pollution, restoration, and management on Wednesday.
Speaking to more than 200 experts from 25 nations and territories in Quy Nhon City, the capital of the south-central province of Binh Dinh, Minister Ha confirmed that Vietnam faces many environmental challenges, including rising pollution, decreasing biodiversity, limitations to environmental management, lack of forecasting capability, and insufficient resources to deal with environmental incidents. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam seeks environmental protection help from foreign scientists”→
Lake cleaners pour Redoxy-3C to purify a lake in Hà Nội. – Photo thanglong.chinhphu.vn
HÀ NỘI — All lakes in the inner city and 36 of the 140 polluted lakes on the outskirts have been cleaned, the Hà Nội Water Drainage Company said on Wednesday.
Of the 36 lakes, 14 are in Đông Anh District, six are in Thạch Thất District and six are in Ba Vì District, said Phan Hoài Minh, deputy director of the company. The remaining ones are in Chương Mỹ, Gia Lâm, Sơn Tây, Thanh Oai, Ứng Hòa and Mê Linh districts.
Minh said that in 2016, following proposals submitted by district and town authorities, the company assessed the pollution level of 150 lakes on the outskirts of the capital city. Of these, 140 lakes were severely contaminated and needed urgent clean-ups to protect their bio-systems, safety levels and the surroundings. Tiếp tục đọc “Hà Nội’s lakes cleaned up”→
ĐSVN – Môi trường ô nhiễm, ruồi nhặng bu đầy, sống tạm bợ, lay lắt… ấy là cảnh sống của những người dân sống cạnh những trại bò khổng lồ của Tập đoàn TH.
Trong 2 tháng 10, 11/2016, lãnh đạo UBND tỉnh Đắk Lắk đã ký các quyết định xử phạt hành chính 10 bệnh viện với tổng mức phạt gần 1,7 tỷ đồng, về tội xả nước thải, bụi thải, khí thải gây ô nhiễm, không thực hiện giám sát, quan trắc môi trường. Trong đó, có tới 9/10 đơn vị là bệnh viện công, bị yêu cầu phải khắc phục các vi phạm chậm nhất vào ngày cuối năm 2016.
Nơi BV ĐK Buôn Ma Thuột đặt lò đốt rác tạm đã nhiều lần bị khiếu nại vì gây ô nhiễm khu dân cư
Từ toà nhà cao ốc văn phòng tại Hà Nội, anh Trần Dũng hầu như không thể nhìn thấy đường chân trời của thành phố đằng sau lớp khói bụi dày đặc. Trước khi rời công sở, anh chuyên viên trợ lý này kiểm tra phần ứng dụng AirVisual để đọc mức ô nhiễm không khí, ứng dụng cung cấp số đo chỉ số PM2.5 tại thời gian thực – PM2.5 là các hạt bụi nhỏ li ti có trong khói bụi mà có thể huỷ hoại cổ họng và phổi của con người.
Những hàng dài xe máy và ô tô là nguyên nhân chính gây ô nhiễm không khí ở Hà Nội
Chỉ số PM2.5 thường dao động từ 100 đến 200 microgram mỗi mét khối – mức độ này thường được xếp vào loại “không tốt cho sức khoẻ” mà được toàn cầu đã công nghận. Nhưng vào ngày 19/12 năm rồi, nó đạt đến “mức độ nguy hiểm” ở mức 343 microgram/m3, cao hơn cả ở Bắc Kinh.
Infringements and defects committed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Party Civil Affairs Committee and individuals involved in the Formosa fish deaths were serious and must be punished, announced the Central Inspection Commission. — VNA/VNS Photo Võ Dung
HÀ NỘI – Infringements and defects committed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Party Civil Affairs Committee and individuals involved in the Formosa fish deaths were serious and must be punished, announced the Central Inspection Commission.
In an announcement yesterday of the results of the commission’s 11th meeting from February 15-17, the commission concluded that from 2008-16 the ministry’s Party Civil Affairs Committee was irresponsible in exercising their leadership, carried out insufficient inspections and supervision and let infringements occur in assessment of environmental impacts, and adjustment of waste water discharge location and State management of the Formosa Hà Tĩnh project. Tiếp tục đọc “Bodies, individuals related to Formosa disaster made public”→
Dead fish started washing ashore in Vietnam in April after Taiwanese firm Formosa released contaminated waste into the ocean. (Photo: AFP)
HANOI: Vietnam said on Wednesday (Feb 22) it will punish 11 senior officials for misconduct over a toxic waste dump last year that killed tonnes of fish in one of the country’s worst environmental disasters.
Taiwanese steel firm Formosa was blamed for the crisis that decimated livelihoods in coastal fishing communities in central Vietnam and was forced to pay $500 million in fines.
Air pollution fatalities in Vietnam are the second highest in Southeast Asia.
A new environment study paints a very bleak picture of Vietnam, measuring its air pollution as the second deadliest in Southeast Asia in terms of the raw number of premature deaths.
Deaths attributable to dangerous air particles in Vietnam jumped 60 percent from 26,300 in 1990 to 42,200 in 2015, according to the report issued jointly on Tuesday by the Health Effects Institute, a Boston research institute focused on the health impacts of air pollution, and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle.
In Southeast Asia, the country’s fatalities came second only to Indonesia’s, the study found. Vietnam has the third largest population in the region.
Ambient particulate matter ranks fifth among risk factors for total deaths around the world, after high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and high cholesterol.
Ambient air pollution is measured by the concentration of PM2.5, a fraction of the width of a human hair which is released from vehicles, industry, as well as from natural sources like dust.
Pollution in Vietnam worsened between 2000 and 2005, but improved later and thus stayed almost unchanged over the surveyed period.
A new $53m BRT (bus rapid transit) system has the power to reduce Hanoi’s dreadful air pollution. Persuading residents of Vietnam’s rapidly expanding capital to ditch their motorbikes and private cars, however, will be another story
The swarm of motorbikes and cars is the main cause of Hanoi’s air pollution. Photograph: Linh Pham/Getty Images
Saturday 18 February 2017 05.58 EST
From his high-rise office building in Hanoi, Tran Dung can barely see his city’s skyline behind the thick layer of smog. Before leaving work, the 25-year-old executive assistant checks the pollution reading on his AirVisual app, which provides real-time measurements of PM2.5 – the tiny particles found in smog that can damage your throat and lungs.
In an unprecedented legal case, a group of Chinese lawyers have charged the governments of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei with failing to protect their citizens from air pollution, which is linked to a third of all deaths in the country
Monday 13 February 2017 07.00 EST Last modified on Monday 13 February 2017 07.26 EST
Who is responsible for China’s chronic and deadly air pollution? That depends on who you ask. Officials blame the weather or outdoor barbecues, activists blame steel companies and coal-fired power plants. But Yu Wensheng blames only one actor: the government.
The 50-year-old lawyer recently launched an unprecedented suit against the authorities in three regions in China, claiming they have failed in their responsibilities. For a government with the motto “Serve the People”, Yu feels the officials are serving other interests by allowing nearly half a billion people to choke on toxic smog. Tiếp tục đọc “‘We had to sue’: the five lawyers taking on China’s authorities over smog”→
The China Kingho Energy Group’s coal-to-gas plant in Chuluqay, Xinjiang, China, in 2014.Credit Benjamin Haas/Bloomberg
YINING, China — When scientists and environmental scholars scan the grim industrial landscape of China, a certain coal plant near the rugged Kazakhstan border stands out.
On the outside, it looks like any other modern energy plant — shiny metal towers loom over the grassy grounds, and workers in hard hats stroll the campus. But in those towers, a rare and contentious process is underway, spewing an alarming amount of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas accelerating climate change.
The plant and others like it undermine China’s aim of being a global leader on efforts to limit climate change.
The plant, in the country’s far west, converts coal to synthetic natural gas. The process, called coal-to-gas or coal gasification, has been criticized by Chinese and foreign scholars and policy makers. For one thing, it is relatively expensive. It also requires enormous amounts of water, which exacerbates the chronic water crisis in northern China. And worst of all, critics say, it emits more carbon dioxide than traditional methods of energy production, even other coal-based ways.
File photo of Vietnamese workers demonstrating outside the Formosa Plastics Corp headquarters in Taipei. (Photo: AFP/Sam Yeh)
HANOI: Vietnam said on Thursday (Jan 26) it would punish four officials over one of its worst environmental disasters, caused by a unit of Taiwan conglomerate Formosa Plastics, in the first action against government officials ten months after the accident.
Cuộc khảo sát này được thực hiện bởi GreenID – một tổ chức phi lợi nhuận có trụ sở tại Hà Nội. Chúng tôi thực hiện khảo sát này với mong muốn được hiểu rõ hơn cảm nhận và nhận thức của cộng đồng về hiện trạng chất lượng không khí tại Việt Nam. Dữ liệu thu thập sẽ được GreenID phân tích, tổng hợp phục vụ cho việc tiến hành báo cáo “Chất lượng không khí Việt Nam 2016”. Mục đích của báo cáo nhằm giúp chính quyền và người dân có một cái nhìn tổng quát về hiện trạng chất lượng không khí tại Việt Nam, đồng thời tìm kiếm những giải pháp giảm thiểu ô nhiễm không khí. Do đó những ý kiến của bạn là cực kỳ quan trọng đối với chúng tôi. Chúng tôi đảm bảo những câu trả lời của bạn sẽ được hoàn toàn bảo mật. Phiếu khảo sát bao gồm 16 câu hỏi, dự kiến được hoàn thành trong vòng 5 phút.
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