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‘In Eighteen Hundred Sixty Four the Burying Began’ – Arlington Cemetery at 150

One hundred fifty years after the first burial at Arlington, the national cemetery is running short of room. Continue reading: ‘In Eighteen Hundred Sixty Four the Burying Began’ – Arlington Cemetery at 150 Related ArticlesPope Francis: ‘We Are Custodians of Creation’Research on Malaria-Resistant Children in Tanzania Leads to Promising New Vaccine TargetGavin Schmidt on Why Climate Models are Wrong, and Valuable

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Detroit Plan to Profit on Water Looks Half Empty

Cities and counties that have long bought their water from Detroit’s vast, aging system are teaming up to bypass the bankrupt city. Source:  Detroit Plan to Profit on Water Looks Half Empty ; ;Related ArticlesWorries Turn to Disease as Waters Recede in BalkansNear-Average Hurricane Season Is Predicted for U.S. as El Niño Develops in the PacificNational Briefing | South: North Carolina: Deal Reached on Cleanup of Utility’s Toxic Spill ;

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Economic View: Buying Insurance Against Climate Change

Because efforts to stop global warming may fail, one way to handle the financial losses is to share the long-term risks. More: Economic View: Buying Insurance Against Climate Change Related ArticlesExtreme Weather: How El Niño Might Alter the Political ClimateThe Big Melt AcceleratesIn California, Climate Issues Moved to Fore by Governor

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Billions of barrels of new reasons to not frack California

Billions of barrels of new reasons to not frack California

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The health, environmental, and climate impacts of fracking haven’t been enough to convince California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to curb the process. Even as Brown urges California restaurants to limit servings of water to help conserve during a drought, oil drillers are gearing up to use the water-hungry practice of fracking to suck more crude out of the vast Monterey shale deposit.

But now the federal government has drastically downgraded its estimate of the amount of oil that could be fracked from the deposit, spurring environmentalists to demand yet again, and even more loudly, that Brown support a fracking moratorium in the state.

First, here’s an explanation of the downgrade from KQED:

Federal officials with the Energy Information Administration are reportedly downgrading their estimate of how much oil could be pumped out of the formation. Just a few years ago, the agency projected that oil companies could retrieve 15 billion barrels of oil. Now, it’s down to 600 million.

Just to clarify: these numbers don’t reflect how much oil is underground in California. Most geologists agree that there’s still plenty down there. The EIA is attempting to estimate how much could be pumped out with current technology.

Environmentalists quickly seized on the news. They didn’t want that oil drilled to begin with, and now that much of it may not be extractable, they argue that fracking would be even more wasteful than previously thought. “The myth of vast supplies of domestic oil resources and billions in potential revenue from drilling in California by the oil industry has been busted,” San Francisco billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer told the San Jose Mercury News.

Here are highlights from a letter that a coalition of environmentalists called Californians Against Fracking sent to Brown on Wednesday:

We urge you to move quickly to halt fracking and other dangerous oil-recovery methods in California in the wake of today’s news that the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will be reducing their estimate of the amount of recoverable oil in the Monterey Shale by 96 percent. …

The EIA’s massively revised estimate for what is currently recoverable is a perfect illustration of the dangerous uncertainty surrounding fracking for oil. On the other hand, what is clear is that fracking, acidizing and other oil extraction techniques are putting Californians at risk today. Communities urgently need protection from fracking and drilling and we are looking to you to provide leadership and relief to these communities.

It seems disingenuous for Brown to tell residents to reduce their water use while allowing frackers to operate in their water-wasteful ways — and that disconnect only grows more glaring with the news that fracking won’t even deliver the oily goods that he had been hoping for.


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California’s Monterey Shale: Bonanza or Bust? Nobody Really Knows, KQED
Fracking: New Monterey Shale oil estimate rocks California’s expectations, San Jose Mercury News

John Upton is a science fan and green news boffin who tweets, posts articles to Facebook, and blogs about ecology. He welcomes reader questions, tips, and incoherent rants: johnupton@gmail.com.

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Flood Danger Persists in Serbia, Threatening Power Plant

Workers have so far been unsuccessful at building a barricade of sandbags to save the coal-fired Nikola Tesla power plant that provides half of the nation’s electricity. Link: Flood Danger Persists in Serbia, Threatening Power Plant ; ;Related ArticlesCalifornia Wildfires Spread Across Hills, Leveling HomesFire Season Starts Early, and FiercelyOutlasting Dynasties, Now Emerging From Soot ;

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Exploring the Social and Environmental Challenges as Brazil Prepares for Two Sports Spectacles

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Codex: Adepta Sororitas (Enhanced Edition) – Games Workshop

The Adepta Sororitas, also known as the Sisters of Battle, are an elite sisterhood of warriors raised from infancy to adore the Emperor of Mankind. Their fanatical devotion and unwavering purity is a bulwark against corruption, heresy and alien attack, and once battle has been joined they will stop at nothing until their enemies are utterly crushed In this b

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Warhammer 40,000 (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

In the nightmare future of the 41st Millennium, Mankind teeters upon the brink of extinction. The galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man, beset on all sides by ravening aliens, foul traitors and Warp-spawned Daemons, looks once more to its greatest heroes to stave off the encroaching darkness. There is no time for peace. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only wa

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White Dwarf Issue 16: 17 May 2014 – White Dwarf

This issue sees Warhammer 40,000 reborn with a brand new edition of the game – we go deep and investigate all the exciting new bits, including the new missions, psychic phase and Unbound armies, and interview the rules team too. About this Series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s weekly magazine, and boasts a wealth of great content, from the latest new

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Citizen Canine – David Grimm

Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens? Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn’t warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they have more rights and protections than any other animal in the country

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes,

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Cesar’s Way – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

“I rehabilitate dogs. I train people.” —Cesar Millan There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems? In this definitive and accessible guide, Cesar Millan—star of National Geographic Channel’s hit show Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan —reveals what do

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The Home Organizing Workbook – Meryl Starr

Failing the Mary Poppins’ snap-the-fingers approach to cleaning, here’s the next best thing: an utterly practical handbook that offers lasting results for anyone looking to banish clutter from every room in the house. Home organizer par excellence Meryl Starr offers up her hardworking organizing solutions in The Home Organizing Workbook, a straight

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Warhammer: Wood Elves (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

For millennia, the Wood Elves have dwelt beneath the leaves of Athel Loren, defending their greenwood home from the perils of the world. When the King in the Woods sounds his horn, longbows are strung and spears are sharpened as the hosts of Athel Loren assemble beneath ancestral banners. In the depths of the forests, enchantresses sing songs of awakening, r

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Marley & Me – John Grogan

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new material

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White Dwarf Issue 15: 10 May 2014 – White Dwarf

Things get apocalyptic for Warhammer 40,000 with the arrival of War Zone: Valedor – and the rules team write us a brand-new Dark Eldar datasheet you’ll only find in White Dwarf! Sprues and Glue, meanwhile, looks at the fine art of spraying your miniatures… and we have a sneak peek at the new Warhammer 40,000. About this Series: White Dwarf is Games Wo

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Exploring the Social and Environmental Challenges as Brazil Prepares for Two Sports Spectacles

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Science Standards Divide a State Built on Coal and Oil

Wyoming, which has been enriched by the sale of its natural resources, was the first state to reject new national science standards for schools, but it likely won’t be the last. Link to original –  Science Standards Divide a State Built on Coal and Oil ; ;Related ArticlesCalifornia Wildfires Spread Across Hills, Leveling HomesMatter: When Predators Vanish, So Does the EcosystemThe Science Behind Forest Fires ;

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Billionaire Democrat Sets Eye on Senate Races

Tom Steyer, whom Republicans have depicted as a one-man special interest group, plans to raise $100 million to run campaigns on climate issues and efforts to block the Keystone XL pipeline. Credit:  Billionaire Democrat Sets Eye on Senate Races ; ;Related ArticlesFewer Honeybees Died Over the Winter, a Report SaysAs Park Service Culls Deer in Washington, It Helps Charities Fill BelliesPanel Questions Experts on Closed Reactor Risks ;

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Dot Earth Blog: Arrests Made in Assault on Park Redwood Trees

Two men are arrested and charged in connection with wood poaching from giant redwood trees in a California park. See more here:  Dot Earth Blog: Arrests Made in Assault on Park Redwood Trees ; ;Related ArticlesXishuangbanna Journal: In Land That Values Ivory, Wild Elephants Find a Safe HavenDot Earth Blog: Timber Thieves Threaten California’s Redwood GiantsWhy Are So Many White Men Trying To Save the Planet Without the Rest of us? ;

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That Amazing ‘Solar Roadways’ Project Has a Working Prototype

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Roads? Where we’re going, we need solar roads. Concept rendering by Sam Cornett/Indiegogo Four years ago, Scott and Julie Brusaw announced their provocative concept of “Solar Roadways,” a system of modular solar panels that could be paved directly onto roads, parking lots, driveways, bike paths, “literally any surface under the sun.” Since then, the Brusaws have received two rounds of funding from the Federal Highway Administration as well as a private grant to develop their project. They now have a working prototype featuring hexagonal panels that cover a 12-by-36-foot parking lot. In addition to the potential to power nearby homes, businesses, and electric vehicles, the panels also have heating elements for convenient snow and ice removal, as well as LEDs that can make road signage. According to the Brusaws’ calculations, Solar Roadways, if installed nationwide, could generate over three times the electricity currently used in the United States. Read the rest at The Atlantic Cities.

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