Torrential rains from the night of July 31 to early August 1 triggered flash floods and landslides across several communes in Dien Bien province, leaving at least two people dead and eight others missing.
Competent forces in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on June 17 released four Asiatic brush-tailed porcupines, also known as Don, into the Muong Nhe Nature Reserve.
Hundreds of co nhan (a kind of openbill stork with the scientific name Anastomus Oscitans) have been spotted in fields in Dien Bien district in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, over the past week.
The northwestern province of Dien Bien was jolted by a quake measuring 2.7 on the Richter scale on September 20, which is the ninth one in the province this year.
An earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale hit the northwestern province of Dien Bien on September 5, which is the 8th to happen in the province this year.
Rescuers on August 4 managed to reach Sa Na village in Na Meo commune in Quan Son district of the central Thanh Hoa province, which was isolated by floodwater from August 3 due to impacts of Wipha, the third storm hitting the country this year.
Torrential rains in recent days have caused serious floods and landslides in several northwestern mountainous localities, causing heavy losses in both human life and properties.
The northern mountainous province of Dien Bien has around 660 households living in areas vulnerable to landslides and flash floods, according to statistics of localities in the province.
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake hit the northwestern province of Dien Bien at 6:21am on January 9, the second one recorded this year and also the second within just two days.
More than 8,000sq.m of special-use forests were destroyed in just three months between July and September in Dong Met village, Dien Bien district, in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.
Floods triggered by heavy rains on August 15 and 16 caused a nine-year-old girl to go missing and damaged roads and houses in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.
Lying in the north-eastern mountainous region, Dien Bien province boasts rich natural resources with more than 760,000 ha of forest, making up nearly 80 percent of the local total natural area of 956,290 hectares.
The third phase of a project on upgrading Vietnam’s capability to measure rain and detect storms and lightning has been launched at the Pha Din Radar Station in northern Dien Bien province, reported the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
The National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting (NCHMF) has launched a Finnish-funded project to improve the accuracy of rainfall measurements and lightning storm forecasts.
Hundreds of Asian openbill storks, which are listed as an especially rare species in Vietnam’s Red Book, are making their home at the historical relic site of Dien Bien Phu battlefield this season.
The People’s Committee of the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien has urged its localities and agencies to intensify measures to protect migrant Asian openbill storks.
Thousands of endangered Asian openbill storks, which are listed as especially rare in Vietnam’s Red Book, are migrating to the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, according to local sources.
Hundreds of hectares of forests in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, which were blanketed under ice and snow in the strongest cold spell in years in late January, are now at high fire.
