Litter has caused the serious pollution to the coastal communes of Hau Loc district in Thanh Hoa province. The waste treatment project has been drawn up, but it has not been kicked off yet.

After the holidays, tourism sites have been flooded with rubbish left by travelers who ignore public sanitation rules.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam on April 21 urged people to take action to stop polluting the rivers and lakes and protect water resources in response to the Earth Day 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – 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 lot of the beautiful landscapes which have been advertised as the “paradises” for tourists, in fact, are the “paradises of rubbish.”

Transport causes 60-70 percent of the pollution in urban areas and this is one of the most influencing factors to the air quality in the areas.

Some 200 employees of the Bien Dong resort were mobilized to collect over 36 tons of clotted oil on its beach in Vung Tau city, Ba Ria Vung Tau province yesterday morning. The other beaches also collected tons of similar waste oil.

Local authorities all stated they would allocate budgets for building medical waste incinerators. However, medical waste still has not been treated.

Hanoians’ habit of going to pavement food shops have been tormenting themselves. The coal stoves at the food shops have created so many smoky streets in the capital city.

The pavement markets, where Hanoians like going to on the way from work to home instead of traditional markets or supermarkets, have created the special streets with specific smells.

Canals in Ho Chi Minh City are dying because each day they have to suffer hundreds of tons of garbage discharged from households who live along the canals, ships, fruit shops and passers-by.

Millions of tons of garbage have been thrown away every year. Meanwhile, this could be a potential source of energy.

The “gold dream” has cut tourist sites into small pieces, damaged beautiful landscapes and polluted rivers in the gold land area in Quang Nam province.

Illegal gold digging has been devastating the ecosystem, because cyanide, the toxic substance used during the digging, may poison the living environment.

The waste water from the industrial zones in Long An province has been polluting the water sources that serve agriculture production in Hoc Mon, Binh Chanh and Cu Chi districts in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of mining enterprises have been found as running away after the mining period and not fulfilling the post-mining works they committed when receiving the exploitation licenses.

Twenty million people in 11 provinces and cities in the southern region of the country are being affected by the worsening water pollution in the Dong Nai River, all of who use the river water for some form of daily activity or production. 

Natural resources have been degrading and getting exhausted, the biodiversity has got degraded, while climate changes have turned unpredictable. These are the main points of the picture about Vietnam’s environment.

When hydropower power plant dams are built in masses on Mekong River, this would not only seriously damage the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, but would also threaten the world’s food security.

Industrial factories, workshops have been located in rural areas, bringing money and helping improve the living standards of local residents. However, they have to pay penalty for the money they receive today: more and more people die of cancer.