Environment

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Marijuana plants are seen on Oct. 3, 2012, in Chicago, where officers say they discovered two football fields worth of pot plants growing on the city's South Side. Authorities say more than 1,000 cannabis plants — some as tall as Christmas trees — were discovered during a helicopter operation. (Associated Press)

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Cattle graze on a ranch outside of Encino, N.M. With drought drying out grazing land and driving up hay prices, authorities in drought-stricken states say some ranchers have started stealing hay or leaving gates open so their cattle can graze on greener pastures. (Associated Press)

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A traffic warden and another man push a stalled commercial bus to the side of a busy highway in Lagos. Drivers are hostage to a road network in the capital city that hasn’t been upgraded since the 1970s. (Associated Press)

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Frank Miller's sequential art masterpiece arrives in an animated format in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1.

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Christophe Tulou, who raised concerns to federal regulators, was fired as head of the Department of the Environment for what D.C. officials said was a “breach of protocol.” (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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High waves hit a breakwater in Kihocho, Mie prefecture, western Japan Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012. A powerful typhoon is heading to Tokyo after injuring dozens of people, causing blackouts and paralyzing traffic in southern Japan. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)