Environmental news

11/07/2025
THE DILEMMA AFTER THE OIL SPILL AT CAN GIO MANGROVE

In recent years, oil spills caused by maritime activities have had a negative impact on the environment. A recent example is that on April 25, 2025, there was a collision between two cargo ships, one of Panamanian nationality and one of Hong Kong nationality, on the Long Tau River, in Can Gio District, Ho Chi […]

10/07/2025
DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE GENERAL SPILL RESPONSE PROCEDURE?

10/07/2025 – There are many ways to respond to the spill procedure. There may be various ways to make handicrafts, or some ways are more complicated; however, to ensure the process, we all have THE GENERAL SPILL RESPONSE PROCEDURE, which can be applied to almost all liquid spills. Only trained crew (having the required materials […]

09/07/2025
SOME FACTS ABOUT INCIDENT RESPONSE EQUIPMENT

09/07/2025 – The Vietnam Environment Incident Response Center (SOS Center) has responded to over 200 chemical spills (by 2024) in Vietnam with various difficulties and circumstances. SOS Center has a nationwide network of more than 100 response stations equipped with specialized response equipment, material, roadway and waterway vehicles, and professional responders. Also, the SOS Center […]

26/06/2025
Burned-out Zodiac-managed vehicle carrier sinks off Alaska

24/6/2025 – Fire-fighting vessels and salvage teams mobilised to an abandoned, fire-damaged vehicle carrier drifting off the US coast of Alaska in the Pacific Ocean have confirmed the vessel has sunk.  A 2006-built vehicle carrier transporting hundreds of electric and hybrid-powered cars has sunk in deep waters hundreds of nautical miles off the US coast […]

26/06/2025
Moment of impact as container ship Solong hits Stena tanker

13/3/2025 – Video footage provided by an Israeli maritime technology company has captured the moment that Stena Bulk’s MR tanker Stena Immaculate, loaded with 220,000 barrels of jet A1 fuel, was hit by the Portugal-flagged container feeder vessel Solong. Orca AI chief executive and co-founder Yarden Gross said the company has provided the footage to […]

26/06/2025
Oil spill leaves 10-km trails on central Vietnam beach

Trails of oil spills have stretched around 10 km of a beach in Phu Yen’s Tuy Hoa Town, suspected to have originated from a vessel offshore. Border guards of Tuy Hoa on Friday, along with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and local authorities, acknowledged the oil spills appearing along the beach. After […]

26/06/2025
Oil spill contaminates over 17ha of Ho Chi Minh City forest following collision of 2 foreign vessels

More than 17 hectares of forest in Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City, have been contaminated with oil following a collision between two foreign vessels, according to a report from local authorities. The incident involved the Panama-flagged container ship KMTC SURABAYA and the Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier GENGLYLE, which collided on April 25 on […]

26/06/2025
Massive oil spill prevention effort launched after shipwreck

Seven thousand liters of oil will be removed from a shipwrecked vessel in central Vietnam after a cargo ship crashed into a reef, endangering the ocean with a possible spill. The prevention effort began Wednesday after the accident in the Cu Lao Cham Marine Conservation area off the coast of Quang Nam Province on March […]

23/06/2025
Why Did ‘Shocking’ Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor?

A newly discovered process that makes oil drop like stones may inspire better cleanup strategies, experts say. In April 2010, as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history stained beaches and plastered birds with thick goo, something totally unexpected was happening under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (map). Out of the public eye, a mass of […]

12/04/2018
Oil Spill Kills More Than 2,400 Animals

An unclear amount of oil has leaked into Colombia’s waterways, and environmental activists are saying an oil company is to blame. At the beginning of March, an oil well in northern Colombia burst, spewing an unclear amount of oil into the Magdalena River, a principal waterway that flows about 950 miles northward through the western half of the […]