A Texas man who was just hoping to graze cattle on the land he recently acquired was surprised to discover $2 million worth of marijuana plants growing in a back-woods area.

Authorities in Texas are investigating who is responsible for the secret marijuana growing operation recently found on a local ranchers property. A Chambers County, Texas, rancher called the county Sheriffs Office after checking out land that he recently leased from the Army Corps of Engineers and finding two individuals who took off running when they saw him on Tuesday.

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When deputies arrived at the clearing, they discovered 5,500 marijuana plants with a street value of about $2 million.

Primarily, the most impressive thing of it was that it was a pretty elaborate growing operation, Chambers County Sheriffs Office Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told ABC News today.

Deputy Daniel Houghton/Chambers County Sheriffs Office

PHOTO: A nursery area of marijuana plants on the land located in Chambers County, Texas.

Those responsible for the growing operation hand-cleared land about two acres deep in the woods, devised a watering system and made sure they had optimum sunlight, Hawthorne said.

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by Jeremy Veno, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on July 1, 2014, Tuesday

KUCHING: Anxious villagers from Kampung Sebat Dayak and Kampung Siru Dayak in Sematan are pleading to Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Adenan Satem to look into an alleged encroachment into their farmland by a private company.

According to the villagers, their nightmare started in 2010 when the company was granted a licence to develop about 1,000 acres of state land at Lot 1014 Block 8, Pueh Land District which encompasses 280 acres of land which the villagers claimed to have native customary rights (NCR) over.

Located about 200 metres from their villages, the land is mainly used by the villagers to grow oil palm, padi, rubber trees, fruit trees and vegetables.

On Nov 25, 2011 a civil case was filed at the High Court after two series of talks between the villagers, representatives from the company and the Lundu District Office ended in a deadlock.

On March 7 this year, the High Court granted the company rights to develop the state government land which led the villagers to file an appeal.

The High Court then ordered the company to stop work and not to encroach into the disputed areas until the appeal case is settled.

Despite the court order, the company was said to have continued land clearing activities.

The matter reached a boiling point last Sunday when more than 30 villagers from Kampung Sebat Dayak and Kampung Siru Dayak staged a protest at the alleged encroached site.

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30-Jun-2014

Contact: Dan Stober dstober@stanford.edu 650-721-6965 Stanford University

If you've gone grocery shopping lately, you've probably bought palm oil.

Found in thousands of products, from peanut butter and packaged bread to shampoo and shaving cream, palm oil is a booming multibillion-dollar industry. While it isn't always clearly labeled in supermarket staples, the unintended consequences of producing this ubiquitous ingredient have been widely publicized.

The clearing of tropical forests to plant oil palm trees releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas fueling climate change. Converting diverse forest ecosystems to these single-crop "monocultures" degrades or destroys wildlife habitat. Oil palm plantations also have been associated with dangerous and abusive conditions for laborers.

Significantly eroded water quality now joins the list of risks associated with oil palm cultivation, according to new research co-authored by researchers from Stanford University and the University of Minnesota, who warn of threats to freshwater streams that millions of people depend on for drinking water, food and livelihoods. The new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences contains surprising findings about the intensity and persistence of these impacts, even in areas fully forested with mature oil palm trees.

Land clearing, plantation management (including fertilizer and pesticide application) and processing of oil palm fruits to make crude palm oil can all send sediment, nutrients and other harmful substances into streams that run through plantations. Vegetation removal along stream banks destroys plant life that stream organisms depend on for sustenance and shade.

"Although we previously documented carbon emissions from land use conversion to oil palm, we were stunned by how these oil palm plantations profoundly alter freshwater ecosystems for decades," said study co-author and team leader Lisa M. Curran, a professor of ecological anthropology at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

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A United States marine sweeps for land mines in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan on Sept. 7, 2011.

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By Colin Daileda2014-06-28 19:06:08 UTC

The United States government doesn't want to destroy its land mines just yet, and the reason comes down to this: Mines can be useful.

On Friday, during a conference in Maputo, Mozambique, U.S. officials announced that the country's military will no longer acquire anti-personnel mines. It will also take steps to join a 1997 international treaty banning the devices.

Historically, the U.S. has at times appeared reluctant to become one of the treaty's 161 adherents. Other countries that have not ratified the document include North Korea, Iran and Russia.

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Warring military factions often lay land mines across fields to deter their enemies. Those mines sometimes remain in place long after conflicts are over, often exploding when an unsuspecting civilian steps on one. They've killed at least 88,200 people since 1999. However, the number of deaths per year has dropped from around 26,000 to 4,000 since the treaty was introduced, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

Mines have proven in the past to be an extremely effective defense mechanism," Anthony Cordesman, an expert on U.S. defense plans at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Mashable. That's one of the reasons the U.S. wants to keep its stockpile.

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HENRY CO., Va. -

Their job is done but there is plenty of work left to do.

Friday the Virginia National Guard finished clearing 15 acres of land in an industrial park in Henry County.

It's now ready for businesses, which is the second part of this project conducted more locally by the economic development leaders.

Friday Virginia National Guard soldiers cleaned up their work sites and washed off military trucks.

The team is planning to leave Saturday.

Earlier this month more than 120 members of the national guard set up camp on the industrial site to grade and expand a section of the park. Their work saved the county a lot of money.

"To bring in the all the equipment, the manpower that they brought in would cost us well over one million dollars to do this project and you know we have quite considerably less invested in that right now," said Dale Wagoner the Deputy County Administrator.

Wagoner says the land still needs some work, like paving a road before a new company moves in but the majority of work is finished.

Their work isn't going unnoticed by the community. People have showered the soldiers with food and a thank you. The county plans to have the guard here again next year for more work.

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