US, Vietnam to cooperate on climate change

[Coventina]

Source: International Herald-Tribune

HANOI, Vietnam: The United States and Vietnam announced Monday they will work together to study climate change and seek ways to protect vulnerable river deltas.

The two nations will open an institute in Can Tho, the largest city in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, a densely populated, low-lying region with an extensive network of canals and rivers.

The center at Can Tho University will be used by scientists to share information and data that will help them understand the threats to the world's largest river deltas, said Gregory Smith, a scientist with the U.S. Department of the Interior.

With millions of people living along its long coast and across the Mekong Delta, Vietnam is considered one of the five countries most vulnerable to the potential effects of climate change, said Tran Thuc, director of the country's Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment.


Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/17/asia/AS-Vietnam-US-Climate-Change.php

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This is a little piece of good news!

I was in Can Tho earlier this year. :-)

[marshall]

1. We had to wear masks last year when we were in Vietnam

The air quality is absoultely horrible in HCMC.

[Uncle Joe]

2. This is cool, thanks for the thread, Coventina.

:thumbsup:

Kicked and recommended.

[Javaman]

3. And yet we won't open talks with Cuba.

we live in a fucked up world.

[Posteritatis]

4. Wait a couple months

(I love being able to think that.)