Norway island prison goes ecological
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The minimum-security Bastoey Prison, a lockup on a lush island that has often been compared to a summer camp, now has claimed a new distinction: the world's first ecological prison.
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By Kristopher Hanson STAFF WRITER  Port authorities in Long Beach are designing what they envision will be the greenest shipping terminal in California, built on 160 acres of undeveloped land on Terminal Island.
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The mayor and five other men on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the tiny, isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand
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The island of Pitcairn must cope with a precarious future as six men face imprisonment over sex charges. The men, convicted of various offences, often involving underage girls, could be jailed in a specially-built prison on the island.
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New measures offering some persistent offenders an alternative to prison are  unveiled by Cathy Jamieson.
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Norwegian scientists who explored the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean said Thursday their findings &#151; including what appear to be new species of fish and squid &#151; could be used to protect marine ecosystems worldwide.
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OSLO - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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Science & environment: Operation underway to halt a feared invasion of rats from destroying important seabird breeding station
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Standing on the roof of California's death row, Warden Jill Brown looks down at the exercise yards and sees troubling possibilities. An old masonry wall with razor wire on top and a strip of grass are practically all that stand between condemned men and the San Francisco Bay.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.
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On Amchitka Island, former site of nuclear-weapons testing, a federal monitoring program takes effect this week.
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By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 14--Wooded Island's "Bird Man" is back -- but that doesn't mean Doug Anderson now approves of measures taken to remove several hundred shrubs and small trees on the bird-lover's paradise.
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Drug-using prisoners may be given clean needles under a scheme being considered by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). The service has confirmed it is considering handing out kits to inmates as part of a harm-reduction programme.
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An American activist tries to save an island paradise, one lecture at a time.
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A marine reserve is to be created off the island of Arran to protect bio-diversity, according to the Scottish government.
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The grass may be greener on the inside for inmates at Japan&#39;s Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots have been sprouting in the exercise yard.
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AUCKLAND : Four of the six Pitcairn Island men convicted of sex abuse crimes on the remote British Pacific island colony, including the mayor, have been sentenced to jail terms, a British official said on Friday.