Earthweek Diary Grips Droughts Heat Waves Across World
Steve Newman reports on Australia’s Big Dry hitting crops and livestock. Outback families abandon land as fires burn in Queensland and New South Wales while motorists dodge paddies on highways. Typhoons devastate Japan and Russia. a massive Ecuador mudslide, earthquakes from Japan to Taiwan, and volcanic activity in Kamchatka threaten air travel. Antarctic ozone thinning deepens toward 2005 projections with global scientific centers monitoring.
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Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Nullarbor Plain
Undersea Park Idea From Sunken Cruiser Off North Carolina
Archaeologists with ECU historian Lawrence describe locating Civil War era wrecks off the coast after a $17,205 National Park Service grant. Visibility is poor, 5 feet at best, and divers rely on lines to navigate amid wreckage near 35 to 40 feet depth. The USS from shore and deeper waters await full mapping for an underwater park proposal.
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National Park Service
ECU Department of Maritime History
Lawrence
Underwater park eyed for Civil War shipwrecks
Lawrence says divers would operate on an honor system for artifact recovery, an illegal act under state and federal law, with funds reported to his office. If approved, a telescope post would deter scavenging and help share Civil War era wreck lore amid growing public interest.
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Lawrence
Blockade running era ends as Fort Fisher falls
The piece details Wilmington NC’s rise as a key blockade-running hub aided by Nassau departures and moonless night entries. It notes heavy profits, Confederate reliance on runners, and the eventual collapse after Fort Fisher’s January 1865 capture, followed by surrenders at Appomattox and near Durham.
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Russia
Nassau
Bahamas
Pery
Wilmington
Fort
Fisher
Fort Fisher
Fort Caswell
South
Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox
Virginia
Joseph E. Johnson
William T. Sherman
Durham
Ancient tunnel found near the Sphinx on Giza Plateau
Egyptologist Zahi Hawass says workers uncovered a very old passage edge near the Sphinx, dating to pharaonic times. The team will not remove blocking stones before February, hoping for a closer look inside the statue while guarding against unknown secrets.
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Giza Plateau
Egypt
Teady
Gin Penmaide
Giza
Zahi Hawass
Hawasi
Great Pyramid
Cheops
Sphinx
Hawass
Zimbabwe Whites Targeted as Economic Crisis Deepens
Zimbabwean authorities and allied media escalate anti white rhetoric amid worsening economy. Vice President Nkomo and press attack whites, a white farmer bans flag at a school, and editorialists warn of revenge and dire consequences.
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Harare
Sunday Mail
Zimbabwe
Joshua Nkomo
Michael Auret
Commission For Justice
Robert Mugabe
Mugabe
Africa
South Africa
People’s Voice
Zanu(pf
Bloch
Eric Bloch
Roger Boka
Herald
The
Nkomo
ZANU
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Kayawage
Baliem
Hokkaido
Kuril Islands
Taiwan
New England
Sumatra
Java
Arizona-Sonora
Kamchatka Peninsula
North America
Southeast Asia
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Oregon
Philippine
Mount Mayon
Antarctica
British Antarctic Survey
Faraday
U.S. Earthquake Information Center
World Meteorological Organization
Saudi Arab Arabia
South Pole, Antarctica
Chronicle Features
Monticello
Utes
Peterhoff
North Carolina
Wilm
Egypt’s
New Bern
Pembroke Road
Fapric & Crafi
Dts
Sears Ete
DMC
FLOSS
Craft Books
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