Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient world treasure unearthed (BBC News, Oct. 4)

Giant Duck-Billed Dino Unearthed in Utah (National Geographic News, Oct. 3)

Scans reveal lost gravestone text (BBC News, Oct. 3)

Egypt to put Tutankhamun mummy on display in tomb (Reuters, Oct. 2)

Environment

Brazil Urges World Support for Amazon (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 4)

Australian Fires Add to Fears on Climate Change (N.Y. Times, Oct. 4) Site requires free registration

Climate warming skeptics: Is the research too political? (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 4)

Chemical 'sponge' could filter CO2 from the air (New Scientist, Oct. 3)

Hole in Ozone Layer Shrinks 30 Percent (LiveScience, Oct. 3)

Exploration & Adventure

Human power fuels 13-year odyssey (BBC News, Oct. 3)

Medicine & Health

Pregnant Women Should Eat Fish After All, Experts Urge (ScienceDaily, Oct. 4)

Chilli opens the door to targeted pain relief (news@nature.com, Oct. 4)

Stem cells 'prompt cancer spread' (BBC News, Oct. 3)

Discovery Supports Theory of Alzheimer's Disease as Form of Diabetes (ENN, Oct. 3)

Spouses Copy Each Other's Health Habits (Yahoo News/LiveScience, Oct. 3)

Peoples & Culture

Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones (N.Y. Times, Oct. 5) Site requires free registration

Arctic Melt Threatens Indigenous People (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 4)

Film triggers rat craze in France (BBC News, Oct. 4)

Argentine village isolates teens (BBC News, Oct. 3)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Several Killed as Typhoon Lekima Lashes Vietnam (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 5)

Rumbling Volcano Sparks Panic in Indonesia (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 4)

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

Clinton Says She Would Shield Science From Politics (N.Y. Times, Oct. 5) Site requires free registration

Indonesia to Plant 79 Million Trees in One Day (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 4)

Thai Expert Fights to Save Temple From Sea (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 4)

Despite Warming, Ships to Shun Northwest Passage (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 4)

A Peek Inside Myanmar’s New Capital (N.Y. Times/AP, Oct. 4)

Greek Wildfire Recovery Could Take Decades (National Geographic News, Oct. 3)

Plants & Animals

Captive breeding 'weakens' beasts (BBC News, Oct. 5)

Face to face with the holy cobras (BBC News, Oct. 4)

Deep sea vents yield new microbes (Yahoo News/AP, Oct. 4)

Eavesdropping iguanas heed hawk alarms (New Scientist, Oct. 4)

Cycad Plants "Woo" Insects With Heat, Odor (National Geographic News, Oct. 4)

Chimps don't mind being chumps in raisin game [Indicates different sense of fairness than in humans] (New Scientist, Oct. 4)

Tiny "Crow-Cams" Capture Tool Use in Wild Birds (National Geographic News, Oct. 4)

Corals May Have Defense Against Global Warming (National Geographic News, Oct. 4)

Polar Bear Endangered Status "Likely" (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 4)

No Faking It, Crocodile Tears Are Real (ScienceDaily, Oct. 4)

US plan to protect owl 'polluted by politics': lawmakers (TerraDaily/AFP, Oct. 3)

Biologists Close In On Mystery Of Sea Turtles' 'Lost Years' (ScienceDaily, Oct. 3)

Dogs help sniff out genes (news@nature.com, Oct. 3)

Philippines Bans Fishing to Revive Biggest Reef (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 3)

China Growth Seen Raising Threat to Tigers (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 3)

Lizard Love Triangles Exposed (LiveScience, Oct. 3)

Science & Technology

Technology's challenge to privacy (BBC News, Oct. 4)

'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award (BBC News, Oct. 4)

Geologists recover rocks yielding unprecedented insights into San Andreas Fault (PhysOrg, Oct. 4)

Robots may aid aging Japanese population (Yahoo News/AP, Oct. 4)

Mother-of-pearl inspires super-strong plastic (New Scientist, Oct. 4)

Grass-munching bugs could charge rural phones (New Scientist, Oct. 3)

Computer to Read Minds (Yahoo News/LiveScience, Oct. 2)

Space

Mirrors 'could deflect' asteroids (BBC News, Oct. 5)

Japanese probe enters lunar orbit (BBC News, Oct. 5)

Senate votes to add $1B to NASA budget (Yahoo News/AP, Oct. 4)

Russia marks 50 years of Sputnik (BBC News, Oct. 4)

Sputnik 'was force for world peace' (BBC News, Oct. 4)

Sputnik's Designers Didn't Fathom Its Impact (NPR, Oct. 4)

Largest telescope plans unveiled (BBC News, Oct. 4)

Scientists 'weigh' tiny galaxy halfway across universe (PhysOrg, Oct. 4)

Russia to help NASA explore Moon, Mars (Yahoo News/AFP, Oct. 4)

Asteroid named for `Star Trek' actor (Yahoo News/AP, Oct. 3)

Birth of an Earthlike Planet Spied By Spitzer (National Geographic News, Oct. 3)

Though Colder Than Earth, Saturn's Moon Titan Is Tropical In Nature (ScienceDaily, Oct. 3)

Sun's 'twin' an ideal hunting ground for alien life (New Scientist, Oct. 3)

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