Science

Tran An Quan Faculty of Finance and Accounting 1, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam 22-05-2026 © Wix For a long time, unhealthy diets driven by highly processed foods were often viewed as a problem of modern cities. Fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and brightly packaged snacks seemed like symbols of urban lifestyles. The assumption appeared intuitive: cities become richer, lifestyles become busier, and people increasingly consume u

Pham Minh Tan Ho Chi Minh City 22-05-2026 © Wix Environmental education has long been built around a familiar image: children going outdoors, planting trees, observing birds, or learning to appreciate nature. Yet over the past two decades, researchers have increasingly challenged the idea that humans and nature exist as separate worlds. Emerging perspectives in environmental education instead suggest that children are not simply learning about nature—they are already living w

Minh Anh Hoang Trade Union University, Hanoi, Vietnam *Contact: anhhm@dhcd.edu.vn 21-05-2026 © Wix Cities often present themselves as humanity’s greatest achievement—carefully designed systems intended to maximize safety, efficiency, and comfort. Roads are widened, utilities protected, traffic optimized, and infrastructure managed through increasingly sophisticated regulations. Yet a strange paradox has quietly emerged within many modern cities: in trying to protect people fr

Nguyen Thi Nguyet Nuong East Asian University of Technology Contract: nuongntn@eaut.edu.vn 21-05-2026 © Wix Cities are often seen as symbols of human progress. As urban areas continue to expand, they generate economic opportunities, innovation, and social development. Yet this growth also comes with environmental costs. Urbanization contributes to biodiversity loss, habitat fragmentation, pollution, and intensifying urban heat island effects. Together, these changes threaten

Bich Ha Nguyen Dai Nam University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam *Contact: hanb@dainam.edu.vn 20-05-2026 © Wix The fight against climate change is often imagined as a technological challenge: more solar panels, better insulation, electric appliances, and smarter buildings. These technologies are undoubtedly important. Buildings currently account for approximately 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Shukla et al., 2022), and in the United States alone residential buildings consume

Pham Thai Son Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 20-05-2026 © Wix Modern societies face a difficult challenge. Current patterns of consumption and production continue to place enormous pressure on ecosystems, threatening biodiversity, economic stability, and human well-being. For decades, many sustainability efforts have focused on technological solutions such as improving energy efficiency or expanding renewable ene

Duong Thi Minh Phuong Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University 19-05-2026 © Wix The global environmental crisis is becoming increasingly urgent. Species are disappearing, ecosystems are degrading, and conservation decisions often need to be made quickly—sometimes immediately. Yet acting fast is not enough. To increase the chances of success, conservation interventions must also be guided by evidence (Sutherland et al., 2004; Christie et al., 2020).

Nguyen Thi Thu Na Faculty of Development Economics, VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam 19-05-2026 © Wix Climate change does not affect everyone equally. Rising temperatures, floods, droughts, and other climate-related disruptions often place the heaviest burdens on people who are already socially or economically vulnerable. Children, Indigenous communities, low-income populations, women, and people with health conditions can

Van Quy Khuc VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University 18-05-2026 © Wix As cities continue to grow, the world is becoming increasingly urban. By 2023, nearly 57% of the global population lived in urban areas. Cities bring opportunities for economic development and innovation, but they also create a difficult ecological trade-off: the expansion of roads, buildings, and infrastructure often comes at the expense of natural systems (Panagopoulos, Gonzá

Nguyen Minh Hoang ISR, Phenikaa University 18-05-2026 © Wix Global biodiversity targets have repeatedly fallen short of expectations, and one explanation has become increasingly common: the world simply does not invest enough money in nature. Current investments in biodiversity protection are estimated to be five to seven times lower than what is needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss (Deutz et al., 2020). As a result, governments, financial institutions, and internatio

Nguyen Thi Nguyet Nuong East Asian University of Technology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam *Contact: nuongntn@eaut.edu.vn © Nick Morrison Scientific discoveries only matter if they can be communicated and understood. This simple idea has made scientific writing one of academia’s most important skills. Yet an interesting paradox has emerged in modern science: although researchers increasingly produce plain-language summaries, blogs, and outreach materials, scientific papers themselves

Minh Anh Hoang* Trade Union University, Hanoi, Vietnam *Contact: anhhm@dhcd.edu.vn © Davide Laverga Electric vehicles (EVs) have become powerful symbols of the transition toward a cleaner future. Governments and industries increasingly promote them as solutions to climate change, air pollution, and fossil-fuel dependence. As millions of EVs enter roads worldwide, they promise quieter cities and lower carbon emissions. Yet behind this technological revolution lies a challenge

Bich Ha Nguyen Dai Nam University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam *Contact: hanb@dainam.edu.vn © Wix Cities are expanding at unprecedented speed. By 2050, the United Nations projects that nearly 68% of the global population will live in urban areas, adding roughly 2.5 billion new city residents (He et al., 2021). Accommodating this growth requires enormous quantities of buildings, roads, and infrastructure. Urban development is therefore often viewed as a symbol of progress, economic

Nguyen Phuong Tri Nguyen Tat Thanh University 16-05-2026 © Wix The global transition toward renewable energy is often imagined as a shift away from environmental destruction. Solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move societies toward a more sustainable future. Yet hidden beneath this optimistic vision lies a growing demand for something far less visible: metals. Among the many materials powering the energy tran

Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa Ho Chi Minh College of Economics and Technology 16-05-2026 © Wix Around the world, biodiversity is declining at an alarming pace. To address this crisis, 196 countries adopted the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in 2022, committing to protect 30% of Earth’s land, inland waters, and coastal and marine areas by 2030—an ambitious target often known as “30-by-30.” The goal extends beyond simply drawing more green boundaries on maps. Protected ar

Ni Putu Wulan Purnama Sari Faculty of Nursing, Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University, East Java, Indonesia © Wix The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth,” but its role in regulating the planet goes far beyond simply absorbing carbon dioxide. As one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, the Amazon helps stabilize the global climate by recycling enormous quantities of moisture through evapotranspiration and storing vast amounts of carbon within

Quynh Yen Thi Nguyen Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam © Wix Peatlands are among the planet’s most underestimated ecosystems. Formed through the slow accumulation of partially decomposed organic matter in waterlogged environments, these wetlands cover only around 3–4% of Earth’s land surface, yet they store nearly one-third of global soil carbon (Xu et al., 2018; UNEP, 2022). Over thousands of years, peatlands have functioned as massive natural carbon vaults, quietly regulating the globa

Ngoc Duc Doan SCDM Lab, VietKAP, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam *Contact: doanduc0105@gmail.com © Wix Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing at an extraordinary speed. Every year, around 65 million people move into cities, intensifying pressure on transportation systems that are already fragmented, overcrowded, and heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Across much of the region, mobility is sustained not by formal metro systems or government-operated buses, but by paratransit networks: minibus

Thi Quynh Trang Tran Faculty of International Business and Economics, VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam *Contact: 22051252@vnu.edu.vn © Silkworm Larvae by Fastily at English Wikipedia Silk is nature’s extraordinary engineering achievement. Produced by arthropods such as silkworms and spiders, silk combines remarkable strength, flexibility, biocompatibility, and biodegradability in a single material (Vollrath & Knight

Thi Mai Anh Tran Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA 13-05-2026 © Wix The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a strange paradox of modern civilization. To save lives, people were asked to stay apart. Social isolation and distancing became essential strategies for slowing the spread of the virus until vaccines became available. Yet while these measures protected physical health, they also intensified psychological suffering. Extended isolation increased stress, anxiety