Archaeology & Paleontology

Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years (ScienceDaily, Aug. 14)

Sprawling Angkor Brought Down By Overpopulation, Study Suggests (National Geographic News, Aug. 13)

2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb found intact (MSNBC/Reuters, Aug. 13)

Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals (ScienceDaily, Aug. 13)

Ancient forest found in Hungary (BBC News, Aug. 12)

How Bronze Age man enjoyed his pint (BBC News, Aug. 11)

Richard Leakey Condemns Lucy Tour of U.S. (Physorg.com, Aug. 11)

Tracing Human Migration Through DNA (npr, Aug. 11)

Mary Rose fights the acid reign of bacteria (Telegraph, Aug. 8)

Environment

'Cool farms' mask the extent of global warming (New Scientist, Aug. 14)

Rainforest Biodiversity Shows Differing Patterns (ScienceDaily, Aug. 14)

Carbon Trading Proposal May Put Mature Tropical Forests At Risk, Scientists Warn (ScienceDaily, Aug. 14)

At Australia’s Bunny Fence, Variable Cloudiness Prompts Climate Study (N.Y. Times, Aug. 14) Site requires free registration

EU's climate targets 'ambitious' (BBC News, Aug. 13)

Amazon Deforestation Drops Sharply (PlanetArk, Aug. 13)

Amazon deforestation rates significantly down; WWF urges tighter forest policies (WWF, Aug. 13)

Locked In Glaciers, Ancient Ice May Return To Life As Glaciers Melt (ScienceDaily, Aug. 13)

Alaska slope spills range from crude oil to saltwater (Anchorage Daily News, Aug. 13)

New Zealand Environment Agency OKs Continued Use of 1080 Pesticide (ENN/AP, Aug. 13)

For the Future of Farming, Look Up (Washington Post, Aug. 12 Site requires free registration)

Resolved: Public Corporations Shall Take Us Seriously [Global warming] (NYT Magazine, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming (N.Y. Times, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

Water, Water Everywhere, but Guilt by the Bottleful (N.Y. Times, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

National forests battle damage (USA Today/AP, Aug. 11)

Beijing To Test Plan to Cut Cars (Washington Post, Aug. 11) Site requires free registration

Exploration & Adventure

NOAA Coast Survey continues sea floor mapping expedition in the Arctic (NOAA News, Aug. 13)

Danish team heads for North Pole (BBC News, Aug. 13)

Brave adventurer heads off into the blue (ioL, Aug. 13)

Injured cave explorer rescued after 4 days underground in Italy (International Herald Tribune/AP, Aug. 12)

Medicine & Health

Pollution Causes 40 Percent Of Deaths Worldwide, Study Finds (ScienceDaily, Aug. 14)

Sweatology (N.Y. Times, Aug. 14) Site requires free registration

Living Cells Scanned in 3-D for First Time (LiveScience, Aug. 13)

Eating Fish: Good For Heart, Bad For Environment? (PlanetArk, Aug. 13)

America Loses Its Stature as Tallest Country (Washington Post, Aug. 13) Site requires free registration

Suffering Differently [Post-traumatic stress disorder.] (N.Y. Times, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

Peoples & Culture

Islamists urge caliphate revival (BBC News, Aug. 13)

Scots 'mither tongue' goes online (BBC News, Aug. 12)

Island Hoping: In American Samoa, High School Football Is Seen as the Ultimate Escape (Washington Post, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

Matador Wins. Bull Dies. The End? Not in Portugal.(N.Y. Times, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

Anglo-Indians defy stereotypes (BBC news, Aug. 12)

The Sacrifices of Albania's 'Sworn Virgins' (Washington Post, Aug. 11) Site requires free registration

Natural Disasters & Weather

Hawaii declares hurricane 'emergency' (MSNBC, Aug. 14)

Flooding Wrecks Thousands of Homes in South China (PlanetArk, Aug. 14)

Arctic sea ice set to hit new low (BBC News, Aug. 13)

Java Earthquake: Warning In Less Than Five Minutes With New Early Warning System (ScienceDaily, Aug. 13)

Southern California Long Overdue for Quake (National Geographic News, Aug. 13)

Scientists Try New Ways to Predict Climate Risks (PlanetArk, Aug. 13)

Hunt for Kenya mudslide victims (BBC News, Aug. 12)

More than 2,200 dead in flood-hit South Asia(TerraDaily/AFP, Aug. 12)

Global and U.S. Hazards/Climate Extremes (updated weekly on Wednesdays)

Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet [pdf] (updated late Fridays)

People & Places in the News

A Rising Tide of Gentrification Rocks Dutch Houseboats(N.Y. Times, Aug. 14) Site requires free registration

Aiming for a New Pittsburgh, and Falling Short [Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela](N.Y. Times, Aug. 13) Site requires free registration

Call to save Australia's great savannah (New Scientist, Aug. 13)

Climate change, humans endanger historic Silk Road stop (YahooNews/AFP, Aug. 12)

In City of Ancient Bridges, Dissent Over a New One [Venice, Italy] (N.Y. Times, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

Beirut discovers depression (BBC News, Aug. 12)

Far From the Reservation, but Still Sacred? (N.Y. Times, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

With Fixtures of War as Their Canvas, Muralists Add Beauty to Baghdad (N.Y. Times, Aug. 11) Site requires free registration

Arctic neighbours draw up battle lines (BBC News, Aug. 11)

'Children's Parliament' Sets High Bar in Congo (Washington Post, Aug. 11) Site requires free registration

Canada to strengthen Arctic claim (BBC News, Aug. 10)

Plants & Animals

Call It a Comeback: Ferret Population Shows Big Growth in Wyoming (N.Y. Times, Aug. 14) Site requires free registration

A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats (Physorg.com, Aug. 13)

Why Bugs Are Not Huge (LiveScience, Aug. 13)

Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies (Physorg.com, Aug. 130

Squirrels Heat Their Tails to Fend Off Rattlesnakes (National Geographic News, Aug. 13)

Tagged Tuna Reveal Migration Secrets (National Geographic News, Aug. 13)

Suddenly, the Hunt Is On for Cage-Free Eggs [Animal welfare] (N.Y. Times, Aug. 12) Site requires free registration

Dogs of war endure havoc of combat (USA Today, Aug. 12)

Echolocation took whales to the depths (New Scientist, Aug. 12)

Conservation groups set to sue over lynx meddling (Missoulian, Aug. 13)

Lamprey Harvest Turns Bloodsucker into Treat (NPR, Aug. 10)

Science & Technology

Paper battery offers future power (BBC News, Aug. 14)

Keeping the Earth's plates oiled (Physorg.com, Aug. 13)

Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years(Physorg.com, Aug. 13)

Cooking up a smoky solution[Texan mesquite could offer cheap biofuel resource.] (news@nature.com, Aug. 13)

LSU professors work to improve efficiency of ethanol fuel (Physorg.com, Aug. 13)

Ready to catch wave energy's power(Eugene Register Guard, Aug. 11)

Magnetic gravity trick grows perfect crystals (New Scientist, Aug. 10)

Robot vehicles take on tough jobs (BBC News, Aug. 10)

Space

Space station fitted with new steering gyroscope (New Scientist, Aug. 14)

NASA weighs repair of shuttle's protective shield (Physorg.com, Aug. 13)

What Now, Endeavour? (Time, Aug. 13)

Fiery rock will test whether life came from space (New Scientist, Aug. 13)

Night owls make the most of the meteors (MSNBC, Aug. 12)

Lectures, Meetings, & Conferences

Sources:

Conference Calendar for Zoology (BIOSIS)

Meridian International Center Events

National Academy of Sciences Events

National Air and Space Museum Events

National Journal Daybook [includes environment-related events in Washington]

National Museum of Natural History Events

National Press Club

Smithsonian Resident Associate Programs