Bạn có biết khi trời nóng các máy điều hòa không khí phải dùng điện làm mát bằng cách thu nhiệt trong nhà để bơm ra ngoài. Lượng nhiệt bơm ra không phải chỉ là nhiệt trong nhà thôi mà nhiệt của lượng điện máy phải sử dụng khoảng 30% nữa. Không chỉ thế thôi đâu, để sản xuất ra điện nếu phải bằng năng lượng hóa thạch như than, dầu hay khí đốt sẽ thải ra lượng nhiệt gấp đôi hay ba điện lượng sản xuất.
At least 50 million people in Vietnam will be exposed to the impacts of rising sea levels and more powerful tropical storms and typhoons, among other threats.
Vietnam’s energy program has been hampered by thermal power projects characterized by the highest pollution levels and average investment costs as compared to other cheap and clean sources. In this essay, Ngô Thế Vinh MD wrote down his concerns ...
We had a rendez vous to meet for the first time in Cần Thơ early in December. Actually, we already knew each other “by reputation” through our common concern for the ecosystem of the Mekong River and Mekong Delta.
The generations born after April 30, 1975 would be now about 45 years-old. During those years, the country underwent a policy that brutalized the population, squandered the “gray matter”, and denigrated a whole generation of South Vietnamese ...
As the mercury climbed in Alberta on Wednesday, July 26, it helped bust the myth that baseload is synonymous with reliability. At 2 p.m. the Keephills 2 coal plant tripped offline, and at 3:45 p.m. a second coal plant followed
On a ferryboat going from Đại Ngãi to Cù lao Dung, the waves splattered all over leaving a salty taste on the lips of the passengers on board. Water can be seen all around. But only the brackish water that invades all the canals and waterways in ...
Twenty seven years ago, since 1993, following the recommendation initiated by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development / UNCED held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1992], the United Nations chose March 22 each year as the World ...
Only three months are left, before the Prior Consultation Phase [10/ 2019 –4/ 2020] for the Luang Prabang Project comes to an end. If no immediate action or drastic change in the position of Vietnam is taken, the ground breaking ceremony for the ...
Thế giới, vốn quen với nguồn dầu mỏ dồi dào và giá rẻ, chỉ bừng tỉnh sau cơn khủng hoảng dầu mỏ đầu tiên vào năm 1973. Trong suốt nhiều thập niên, các công ty công nghiệp nhiệt, im lặng trước sự lạm dụng quá mức năng lượng hóa thạch đầy carbon, đã ...
LGT: Hiện trên thế giới dòng sông Whangahui ở Tân Tây Lan và hai dòng sông Ganges và Yamuna ở Ấn Độ đã được luật pháp bảo vệ như con người theo luật nhân quyền. Việc này tăng vị trí pháp lý cho môi trường nuôi sống lưu vực các dòng sông may mắn ...
About three million years ago, Tibet still lied at the bottom of the Tethys sea, a vast expanse of water that covered the landmass of Asia and India. A violent collision between pre-continental Gondwanaland and Laurasia caused a massive earthquake ...
After three months of rapid survey, the Vietnamese Government has reported that the toxic substances causing mass fish death are cyanide, phenol and ferrous-compounds from untreated waste water from the Steel Factory of Formosa. The untreated water ...
This scenario analysis gives an overview of an integrated steel mill operation to identify potential contaminants discharged to sea. The analysis compares several discharge specifications set by the Vietnamese authority to the list recommended by ...
Dear Mr. President, I am writing you this letter on behalf of the Viet Ecology Foundation, an NGO based in the US. We focus on the well-being of the environment, as well as water and food security for Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. ...
The Viet Ecology Foundation has submitted the following letter to His Excellency Ted Osius, US Ambassador to Vietnam to express the damage and danger of the drought situation in the Lower Mekong a Region and request the US monitor the Mekong River ...
October, 2015_ Only recently, Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a directive cancelling the Bon Oum Tuk Water Festival that was due to be held from November 24 to 26 with this explanation: " due to the low level of the river and the drought our Kingdom ...
FOREWORD: This is the last of a three-article series entitled “Mekong - A Look into the Next Half Century” dealing with the future of the Mekong Delta.<br> The first article sketched a general overview of the issue and offered these ...
The Zipingpu hydropower dam in Sichuan was built in 2002 and completed in 2008, soon after the reservoir was filled and put in operation, on May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake, magnitude 7.9 hit the region and reportedly killed 69,000 people, ...
IPCC, 20001: “There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities”
The policy of Doi Moi, first introduced in 1986, has made a dramatic impact on the reduction of poverty in Viet Nam. From a high of 70% in 1990, the poor, as a percentage of the population, fell to 58% in 1993, 37% in 1998 and around 29% in 2002. ...
Ho Chi Minh City is the largest city in Vietnam with a current (1995) population of about 5 millions and which is increasing rapidly due to internal migration and natural growth. The city covers an area of 2,056 km2, which is about 0.61% of the ...
This paper reviews the state of air quality in Ho Chi Minh City as conducted by several organisations in recent years. A comparison of the air quality in HCM City with some other cities in the region is also made. It is shown that the air quality of ...