Environment

'Silver' volunteers join Clean Arctic project

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MOSCOW, March 21. /TASS/. The so-called 'silver age' volunteers joined the Clean Arctic project to remove from the Russian Arctic the waste, accumulated there from the Soviet times, Clean Arctic's press service said on Monday.

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Forum marks International Day of Forests

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Hanoi, February 22 (VNA) – The Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VAF) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) jointly held a forum in response to the International Day of Forests on March 21 in Hanoi, with the theme

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Giant sea turtle rescued, released to nature in Vietnam

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Thua Thien-Hue, March 17 (VNA) – A 100-kg sea turtle, entangled in a fishing net, was rescued by a local fisherman in the waters of Lang Co township, Phuc Loc district of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, and later released to the nature, leaders of the Lang Co Border Post said on March 16.

Three teams of volunteers to participate in upcoming Arctic cleanup

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TASS, March 15. In the coming summer season, ecology expeditions will be organized to the Marre-Sale polar station, to the former Polyarnyi settlement and to the Mys Kamennyi village in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region.

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Vietnam strives to eliminate substances harmful to ozone layer

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Hanoi, March 16 (VNA) – Vietnam has charted a roadmap to gradually eliminate Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from 2024 with the goal of reducing the basic consumption of these harmful substances to the ozone layer from 2024 to 2028, according to Tang The Cuong, Director General of the Department of Cli

Vietnam: Green logistics key to green transition process

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Hanoi, March 16 (VNA) - Green logistics is increasingly popular on the business radar, given consumers' interest in environmentally friendly products and the trend in green transition now underway globally.

Russia’s permafrost monitoring bill sparks interest by other countries — minister

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MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/.

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Vietnam contributes to building UN instrument for marine biological diversity

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Hanoi, March 7 (VNA) – The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdicti

Vietnam takes drastic action to hunt down wildlife trafficking

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Hanoi, March 6 (VNA) – Aware of wildlife trafficking and its threat to biodiversity preservation, Vietnam has taken drastic action to fight the use of wildlife and their products, such as fine-tuning laws, raising public awareness, strengthening legal enforcement, and strict punishment for violat

Al-Fadley Inaugurates Climate Change Regional Center for Enhancing Environmental Performance

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Thuwal, March 05, 2023, SPA -- Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture and Chairman of the Board of the National Center for Meteorology, Eng.

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