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Vietnam map of Köppen climate classification Hundreds of active fires burning across the hills and valleys of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam (labelled with red dots). Vietnam's climate, being located in the tropics and strongly influenced by the South China Sea has a monsoon-influenced climate typical of that of mainland Southeast Asia.
Vietnam's geography of long coastal areas and monsoon rains makes its land and people highly sensitive to the above-mentioned results such as elevations in sea levels and the intensification of weather extremes that climate change will bring. While the magnitude and speed of such trends remains unclear, there is sufficient certainty in the ...
However, the issues which the environmental movement in Vietnam is concerned with sometimes fall outside these official categories. For example, according to a World Bank study in 2007, [3] climate change has become a major concern because Vietnam is expected to be seriously impacted by climate related consequences in the years to come.
Six climate defenders have been arrested in Vietnam since 2021, as the Southeast Asian country signs a multi-billion dollar financing deal to help its green transition
[1]: 27 Because all of Vietnam lies between the southern and northern limit of the polar front, Vietnam's climate are both influenced by polar air and tropical air (from the tropical convergent zone). [1]: 27 In Vietnam, the monsoon circulation is a combination of both the South Asian and Northeast Asian monsoon systems.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Vietnam defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions. Vietnam is in the Indomalayan realm.
The environment of Vietnam was severely degraded by the use of defoliants, bombing and other military activities. [1] North Vietnam utilized the geography and ecology of the region to conceal their activities and move resources, such as via the complex network of tunnels and paths in the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.