Disasters and emergency response
Community-based early disaster warning system
Since 2021, a group of scientists from the Institute of Geology has been conducting a state-level project to develop a community-based early warning system for landslides, mud floods, and flash floods in key mountainous areas of northern Vietnam.By September 2024, the project completed a guide ...
Ha Linh
Reforestation, early zoning of landslide risk areas to adapt to natural disasters
The recent Typhoon Yagi and its aftermath caused severe devastation across many northern provinces and cities of Việt Nam. To mitigate and adapt to natural disasters such as storms and floods, it is crucial for localities to restore forest ecosystems and identify landslide-prone areas to ...
Vietnam needs to build disaster-resilient homes, infrastructure
In light of climate change and the increasing frequency of extreme weather phenomena, relevant ministries must consider appropriate models for housing and educational facilities in disaster-prone areas to mitigate damage and enhance disaster response capabilities.Following the terrible losses from Typhoon Yagi, Tran Ngoc Chinh, President ...
Scientists warn flooding due to heavy rain and high tides in Mekong Delta
Scientists at the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research today issued a warning bulletin that flooding due to heavy rain and high tides may occur in some localities in the Mekong Delta region in the coming days. At this time, farmers in the region are ...
Translated By Anh Quan
General Statistics Office: Six measures to boost stable economic development after floods
Floods have directly affected agricultural production, industry, tourism, and transport as rising waters impact material infrastructure. Do Thi Ngoc, Deputy Director General of the General Statistics Office, recently granted an interview to the VietnamPlus on the topic.To cope with the situation, ensuring social security and ...
Viet Nam ranks second in disaster preparedness worldwide
Viet Nam is ranked second among the top four countries in the world in natural disaster preparedness.According to a global survey conducted by global analytics firm Gallup which has been released recently, 83 percent of households in Viet Nam said they had plans in response ...
Thuy Dung
ASEAN launches Airborne Infection Defence Platform
The Airborne Infection Defence Platform (AIDP) was officially launched on August 8 to strengthen ASEAN countries’ tuberculosis (TB) response, and health care system and pandemic preparedness to address the growing issue of airborne respiratory infections. The initiative was inaugurated at a side event of the ...
Forest fires become increasingly devastating
A recent research paper published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution reported that the frequency at which extreme fires are occurring around the world has more than doubled over the past two decades, mainly due to human-caused climate change.Using satellite records, scientists studied ...
Ha Anh
Vietnam joins hands in land management, desertification combat
Vietnam is impacted by drought, land degradation, and moving sand dunes. Degraded land nationwide approximates 12 million ha, accounting for 35.74% of the country’s total area, according to a 2021 land survey by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Protecting and development forest is an ...
US, Cần Thơ and An Giang launch effort to prepare for climate change-induced public health threats
The United States Mission to Vietnam, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), have launched an initiative in Cần Thơ and An Giang provinces to build a local framework for them to detect, prevent and respond to ...
