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| Rapidly increasing water levels in Đáy River has submerged Yên Bằng Commune, Ý Yên District, in the northern province of Nam Định. VNA/VNS Photo Công Luật |
Chuyên mục: Môi trường – Environment
Air quality getting worse as legal loopholes still exists

The air quality measured at different monitoring stations in Hanoi and HCMC has been continuously ‘unhealthy’.
At 8am on October 6, the air quality index (AQI) measured at the US Embassy area in Hanoi was 126, meaning it is ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’. Tiếp tục đọc “Air quality getting worse as legal loopholes still exists”
What will Vietnam’s seafood industry do if it receives yellow card from the EU?

Ngo Viet Hoai, deputy general director of Ba Ria – Vung Tau Seafood Processing & Import/Export Company, said if the EU gives a yellow card warning, 100 percent of seafood containers to be exported to the EU will be subject to inspection in terms of fishing sources. Tiếp tục đọc “What will Vietnam’s seafood industry do if it receives yellow card from the EU?”
Factories secretly dump wastewater into heavily polluted Ho Chi Minh City canal
By Tuoi Tre News
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| A section of the Ba Bo Canal that runs through Provincial Highway No. 43 in Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, is filled with white foam. Photo: Tuoi Tre |
The heavily polluted Ba Bo Canal, which snakes along from Binh Duong Province, approximately 30km from Ho Chi Minh City, to the southern hub’s Thu Duc District, has been a serious issue for a decade.
The water’s condition has remained mostly unchanged despite a costly project to ‘clean’ the channel that began in 2008. Tiếp tục đọc “Factories secretly dump wastewater into heavily polluted Ho Chi Minh City canal”
Man responsible for deforestation arrested
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| As many as 61ha of natural forest in An Lão District was totally destroyed. — Photo vietnamplus.vn |
Thiệt will remain in custody for four months. Tiếp tục đọc “Man responsible for deforestation arrested”
Nóng bỏng chuyện đấu giá gỗ cao su
Trong khi giá mủ cao su đang lên dần, thì giá gỗ cao su cũng không ngừng tăng sau khi Thủ tướng ra lệnh đóng hoàn toàn việc khai thác gỗ rừng tự nhiên. Tình trạng khan hiếm nguồn gỗ nguyên liệu cho công nghiệp chế biến, xuất khẩu khiến việc lùng mua và các chiêu trò can thiệp vào những phiên đấu giá gỗ cao su trở nên phức tạp, nhộn nhạo chưa từng có.

Sesan dam goes online, while PM dismisses environmental concerns
The floodgates of the largest and most controversial dam project in the country’s history officially closed yesterday at an inauguration ceremony presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who took aim at environmentalists, ambassadors and NGOs in a wide-ranging speech.
During his one-hour address, the prime minister said the Lower Sesan II Dam, near the border with Laos in Stung Treng province, would lower electricity costs and put the Kingdom on its way to hooking up every village in the country to the electricity grid by 2022. Tiếp tục đọc “Sesan dam goes online, while PM dismisses environmental concerns”
Death by dam for the Mekong
Laos’ Pak Beng dam, developed by China and supported by Thailand, has divided riparian nations over how best to manage the river’s resources

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
VN needs environmental security strategy: experts
VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs a national strategy to combine environmental protection with socio-economic development policies, Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Sinh, president of the Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment said in a talk held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and the Viet Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment in Ha Noi recently.
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| Despite many bilateral and multilateral co-operation mechanisms on water resource development and protection, Viet Nam still lacks the ability to maintain autonomy and satisfy its water needs. — Photo giaothongvantai.vn |
Tiếp tục đọc “VN needs environmental security strategy: experts”
Man spends 20 years to conquer forest
VietNamNet Bridge – Living in the southern-most province of Ca Mau since his life was difficult, Tran Van Xe has spent more than 20 years here or near the area.
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| Tran Van Xe has spent more than 20 years of his life to protect and plant trees in the Tam Giang Protective Forest. — Photo danviet.vn |
It takes more than an hour by boat from the centre of Tam Giang Dong Commune in Nam Can District to Xe’s house.
His house is surrounded by mangroves.
Xe joined the revolutionary resistance war in 1965 and fought in the south. Then he fought in Cambodia and suffered an injury on his right leg. Tiếp tục đọc “Man spends 20 years to conquer forest”
Vietnam to launch tours through Son Doong Cave as controversial ladder installation backed
Oxalis has been allowed to take tourists through Son Doong from entrance to exit from 2018
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| The ladder at the ‘Vietnamese Wall’ inside Son Doong. Photo: Oxalis |
The Quang Binh administration has green-lighted the ‘ladder solution’ despite widely objections that it may destroy the stalactites that are millions of years old inside Son Doong. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam to launch tours through Son Doong Cave as controversial ladder installation backed”
Eco-tourism should not destroy biodiversity: experts
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| Tourists go kayaking on Chày River in the Phong Nha – Kẻ Bàng National Park in Quảng Bình Province. — VNA/VNS Photo |
With about 2.3 million hectares of special use forests (SUF), 31 national parks and 68 natural reserves, and dozens of other forests, Việt Nam is seen as a prime eco-tourism destination.
However, rapid and haphazard development of tourism infrastructure in natural reserves and SUFs in the last few years has raised concerns that development was taking place at the expense of the environment. Tiếp tục đọc “Eco-tourism should not destroy biodiversity: experts”
Sơn La: đập thủy điện lớn và phức tạp nhất được xây dựng ở Việt Nam
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Dự án Thủy điện Sơn La là dự án đập thủy điện lớn nhất và phức tạp nhất từng được xây dựng ở Việt Nam. Dự án sẽ di dời hơn 91.000 người dân tộc thiểu số, đòi hỏi sự tái định cư lớn nhất trong lịch sử Việt Nam. Hầu hết người dân sẽ phải di dời đến nơi cách nhà hiện tại của mình từ 50 đến 100 km và không còn được tiếp cận với sông Đà – một nguồn sinh kế đối với phần lớn người dân. Những người bị ảnh hưởng gồm 10 nhóm dân tộc thiểu số khác nhau, trong đó người Thái chiếm đa số. Họ sống chủ yếu dựa vào sông và trồng lúa nước. Một trong những mối lo ngại chính là thiếu đất canh tác cho tái định cư khi hàng chục ngàn người dân bị di dời. Tiếp tục đọc “Sơn La: đập thủy điện lớn và phức tạp nhất được xây dựng ở Việt Nam” |
Ministries want to recycle coal power waste
The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction hold a conference about recycling ash and slag waste from coal power plants as construction materials for the Mekong Delta on October 3.
Mai Xanh Company recycle waste as construction materials.
Vietnam has 21 coal power plants and it will have 57 plants by 2030 in accordance with the electric planning approved by the prime minister on March 18, 2016. Tiếp tục đọc “Ministries want to recycle coal power waste”







