The Extinction Protocol- 3/2/13

National Geographic, 4/2013-Mel White

Photograph by Paul Nicklen

The welcome sign on the outskirts of Crystal River isn’t the kind you see every day: “Manatee Information: Tune to 1610 AM,” it reads. Then, too, not many towns have a red-white-and-blue statue of an endangered marine mammal in front of City Hall.

Stop to ask where you can see these aquatic celebrities, and you learn that a couple dozen local dive shops offer snorkeling tours in Kings Bay. Or you can rent a kayak and paddle to one of the warm springs where manatees hang out in winter. Or if you want to watch from dry land, you can head over to the canal west of Three Sisters Springs.

Heaven Letters Published on: April 2, 2013

Sometimes you feel abandoned in life. Know I do not abandon you. It is you who abandons belief in Me, for you become discouraged for one reason or another. You can always find a reason, My beloved. Life isn’t adding up the way you thought life would. There is a setback. Life isn’t turning out the way you thought it would, and you take it personally, very personally. You have been let down. There is something you thought you had to have, and, if you do not have it, you feel desolate. You may feel that all is lost. You have an expectation that did not fulfill itself. In your mind and in your heart, you thought it had to. Because you thought it had to, you are bereft now. Now you feel that all is lost. Now you feel that I have let you down.

weatherzone By Matt Brann, Tuesday April 2, 2013 - 12:42 EDT

The Central Arnhem Road remains closed at Beswick because of flooding. - ABC

About 150 people have been evacuated from the Indigenous community of Beswick, east of Katherine in the Northern Territory, after the flooding Waterhouse River inundated the lower part of town.

Evacuees have spent the past two nights in the local school.

Mal Fox, from the Roper Gulf Shire, said water had gone through about six homes, but the damage was expected to be minimal.

"We evacuated everyone on Sunday up to the new suburb to the school and we were cut off from the bottom suburb," Mr Fox said.

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Volcano Discovery Tuesday Apr 02, 2013 11:04 AM |

White sandstone xenolith from the 16 Mar New SE paroxysm