Archaeology & Paleontology

Sabretooth's surprising weak bite (BBC News, Oct. 2)

Inca Children Were Fattened-up Before Sacrifice, Hair Samples Show (ScienceDaily/Wellcome Trust, Oct. 2)

Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says (ScienceDaily/Univ. of S. Calif., Oct. 2)

Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change (ScienceDaily/Georgia Tech, Oct. 1)

Neanderthals roamed as far as Siberia (New Scientist, Sept. 30)

Lost Romanov bones 'identified' (BBC News, Sept. 28)

Environment

Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts (N.Y. Times, Oct. 2) Site requires free registration

Arctic ice island breaks in half (BBC News, Oct. 1)

Dam Revives Aral Sea and Nearby Communities (NPR, Oct. 1)

Prehistoric lake is oasis of hope for California conservationists (Yahoo!/AFP, Oct. 1)

Deforestation Needs to be in Next Climate Pact (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 1)

Teaming up with Thoreau [Using Thoreau's writing to measure global warming.] (Smithsonian, Oct. 2007)

Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers [Mercury contamination.] (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 30)

'Green' Burials Try To Preserve Cycle of Life (Washington Post, Sept. 29) Site requires free registration

What is the Iraq war's carbon footprint? (Guardian UK, Sept. 27)

Exploration & Adventure

Oceans lined with research cable (BBC News, Oct. 2)

Henk de Velde to sail off on never-ending voyage (TheOceans.net, Sept. 28)

AdventureStats Special: The twelve truths of Everest, part 2 (MountEverest.net, Sept. 28)

Medicine & Health

Girls Are Often Neglected Victims of Concussions (N.Y. Times, Oct. 2) Site requires free registration

Bird flu outbreak reported in Russia (ScienceDaily/UPI, Oct. 1)

Is Great Happiness Too Much of a Good Thing? (Washington Post, Oct. 1) Site requires free registration

Ozone shuts down early immune response in lungs and body (ENN/Duke Univ., Sept. 30)

Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Night's Sleep (Yahoo!/LiveScience, Sept. 30)

Peoples & Culture

Tanzania blacksmith clan forge ahead (BBC News, Oct. 2)

A Brief History of Scotland Yard (Smithsonian, Oct. 2007)

In a Land of Homemade Names, Tiffany Doesn’t Cut It [Zimbabwe.] (N.Y. Times, Oct. 1) Site requires free registration

Little-known Indian tribe spotted in Peru's Amazon (ENN/Reuters, Sept. 29)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Lake Superior Sets Record for Low Water (Red Orbit, Oct. 1)

Gallery: Climate Change and Old Masters [Studying sunsets depicted in paintings.] (Guardian UK, Oct. 1)

Volcano erupts on Red Sea island (BBC News, Oct. 1)

Flooded Togo's urgent aid appeal (BBC News, Sept. 28)

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

Scientists Are Making Brazil’s Savannah Bloom (N.Y. Times, Oct. 2) Site requires free registration

Jane Goodall Institute Celebrates 30th Anniversary (ENN/CSRWire, Oct. 1)

In Greenland, potatoes thrive as seal hunting wanes (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 1)

Tourism set to suffer from the climate change it generates: UN (Yahoo!/AFP, Oct. 1)

Fish billionaire in plea to save wild salmon (Guardian UK, Oct. 1)

Plants & Animals

Cockroaches Are Morons In The Morning And Geniuses In The Evening (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 1)

10,000 Wildebeest Drown in Migration "Pileup" (National Geographic News, Oct. 1)

Sushi Craze Threatens Mediterranean's Giant Tuna (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 1)

Do Migratory Birds 'See' The Magnetic Field? (ScienceDaily/Public Library of Science, Oct. 1)

Guerrillas in Their Midst [Approximately only 150 mountain gorillas left in Congo.] (Smithsonian, Oct. 2007)

Creatures of the Deep! (Smithsonian, Oct. 2007)

Alien intrusions threaten Sweden's seas (PhysOrg, Sept. 28)

Science & Technology

Proving That Seeing Shouldn’t Always Be Believing [Digital forensics.] (N.Y. Times, Oct. 2) Site requires free registration

Sodium Loses Its Luster: A Liquid Metal That's Not Really Metallic (ScienceDaily/DOE, Oct. 1)

Sputnik Left Legacy for U.S. Science Education (NPR, Sept. 30)

Nanowire generates power by harvesting energy from the environment (ENN, Sept. 29)

Surprise in the organic orchard -- a healthier worm in the apple (PhysOrg, Sept. 28)

Space

50 Years Ago, Launch of a New World (Washington Post, Oct. 2) Site requires free registration

Papal stargazers reach for heaven (BBC News, Oct. 1)

The dark matter of the universe has a long lifetime (PhysOrg, Oct. 1)

High-Definition Imagery of Earth Shot from Space (Yahoo!/Space.com, Oct. 1)

Is a 'naked singularity' lurking in our galaxy? (New Scientist, Oct. 1)

Pluto-Sized Planet Embryos Detected (Yahoo!/Space.com, Oct. 1)

Many contestants in latest 'space race' to the moon (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 1)

Secrets of 1957 Sputnik launch revealed (Yahoo!/AP, Oct. 1)

Are manned missions needed to explore Mars and beyond (MarsDaily/AFP, Sept. 30)

Scientist reworks star distances (BBC News, Sept. 28)

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