Snippets
• Italy has been given a final warning by the European Commission for not implementing two rulings of the European Court of Justice on waste landfills.
• The Malaysian state of Terengganu recently banned the use of swim-fins by snorkellers in all marine parks claiming it damaged corals at these sites.
• Singapore has acceded to the Kyoto Protocol. The city-state agreed to adhere to the protocol in New York on April 12.
• The manufacturing, importing and use of plastic bags that are 30 and 65 micron thick have been banned in Tanzania.
• The Danube river rose to it highest level in decades forcing people to flee their homes in Serbia and Romania. It also swamped cities in Bulgaria, where a state of emergency was declared in the river-threatened areas.