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Educational geography website World Atlas has named Ho Chi Minh City among nine cities which could be underwater by 2030 due to the continued impact of global warming, including intensifying disasters.
Vietnam forecast to face historic heat waves in 2020
Vietnam is forecast to suffer the highest temperatures ever recorded in 2020, according to the latest report by the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration.
Thousands of schools in Malaysia, Indonesia close due to smog
Thousands of schools in Malaysia and Indonesia were forced to close on September 19 as air quality has reached unhealthy level due to haze from forest fires.
Most expensive year on record for US natural disasters
The US experienced a record year of losses from fires, hurricanes and other weather related disasters in 2017, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
Mekong farming lags behind: experts
VietNamNet Bridge – A lack of cutting-edge technologies, unrealistic policies, and a failure to take advantage of local expertise and knowledge are constraining agricultural development in the country,
EPA chief unconvinced on CO2 link to global warming
The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said he
is not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main
driver of climate change and said he wants Congress to weigh in on
whether CO2 is a harmful pollutant
Warming may disrupt four-fifths of world's oceans by 2050: study
Global warming will disrupt four-fifths of the world's oceans by 2050 if
greenhouse gas emissions keep rising, threatening fish that are the
main source of food for a billion people,
World heat shatters records in 2016 in new sign of global warming
Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with
temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for
limiting global warming, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change
Service said on Thursday.
Business calls for Trump, world leaders to support Paris climate pact
More than 360 businesses and investors called on U.S. President-elect
Donald Trump and world leaders on Wednesday to continue to support
agreed curbs on global warming and to speed up efforts to move to a
low-carbon economy.
Thaw could release Cold War-era U.S. toxic waste buried under Greenland's ice
Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned
Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps if a
thaw continues to spread in coming decades,
Antarctic seas defy global warming thanks to chill from the deep
A persistent chill in the ocean off Antarctica that defies the global
warming blamed for melting Arctic ice at the other end of the planet is
caused by cold waters welling up from the depths after hundreds of
years,
With climate at 'breaking point', leaders urge breakthrough in Paris
World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back
rising temperatures, with the United States and China leading calls for
the climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against
global warming.
Negotiators grab head start on monumental climate challenge
Senior negotiators from almost 200 nations on Sunday began thrashing
out a new global deal to curb climate change as the president of China,
the world's biggest polluter, landed in Paris.
Climate change may be alarming
Nguyen Van Tue, head of the Hydrometeorology and
Climate Change Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment, spoke with Ha Noi Moi newspaper about the
effects of climate change in Viet Nam.
Australian scientists reveal "unprecedented" sea level rise over past 150 years
Australian scientists have made the alarming discovery that sea
levels have risen more in the past century than at any other comparable
period in the past 6,000 years.
UN climate summit: China pledges emissions action
China has pledged for the first time to take firm action on climate
change, telling a UN summit that its emissions, the world's highest,
would soon peak.
Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984
A surge in atmospheric CO2 saw levels of greenhouse gases reach record levels in 2013, according to new figures.
Climate impacts 'overwhelming' – UN
The impacts of global warming are likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible", a major report by the UN has warned.
Warming 'pause' gives thought for scientists, sceptics
A slowdown in warming that has provided fuel for climate sceptics is
one of the thorniest issues in a report to be issued by UN experts on
Friday.
Global warming could increase human conflict worldwide: study
Global warming will probably trigger more human conflict and violence
worldwide, according to a study published Thursday in the U.S. journal
Science.
