Archaeology & Paleontology

Petrified forest found in New Mexico (Physorg.com, Oct. 12)

Researchers display shipwreck artifacts (YahooNews/AP, Oct. 11)

World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria (MSNBC/Reuters, Oct. 11)

Environmental setting of human migrations in the circum-Pacific Region (EurekAlert, Oct. 10)

Dino print could be T. rex mark (BBC News, Oct. 9)

Human Ancestors Walked Upright, Study Claims (LiveScience, Oct. 9)

King Tut's Mummy to Be Displayed for 1st Time (National Geographic News, Oct. 9)

River reveals 'Jurassic dragon' (BBC News, Oct. 9)

Catapults Invented Before Theory Explained Them (LiveScience, Oct. 9)

Environment

Dam Project to Displace Millions More in China (N.Y. Times, Oct. 12)Site requires free registration

Tuna fishing fleets in the Pacific a danger to wildlife (WWF, Oct. 11)

Chinese loggers stripping Myanmar's ancient forests (TerraDaily, Oct. 11)

Ethanol Crops Could Threaten Water Supply (LiveScience, Oct. 11)

Survey: Travelers Choosing Green, But Not At Any Cost (ENN, Oct. 11)

Many French Rivers Polluted by Banned Chemical (PlanetArk, Oct. 11)

Zero emissions needed to avert 'dangerous' warming (New Scientist, Oct. 11)

China City Bans Cars Over Holiday, Lauds Results (PlanetArk, Oct. 10)

Seattle’s Recycling Success Is Being Measured in Scraps (N.Y. Times, Oct. 10)Site requires free registration

Exploration & Adventure

Everest climber, 56, to sail non stop and solo around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean (MountEverest.net, Oct. 11)

Expedition Amazonas: Terrifying first week in IV/V whitewater calls for plan B (theOceans.net, Oct. 11)

Diary: Taking the Northwest Passage (BBC News, Oct. 10)

Medicine & Health

Polio in Nigeria Traced to Mutating Vaccine (N.Y. Times, Oct. 11)Site requires free registration

Pollution Cuts Life Expectancy, Threatens Child Development In Europe (ScienceDaily, Oct. 11)

Boom Times for Dentists, but Not for Teeth(N.Y. Times, Oct. 11)Site requires free registration

MIT finds new hearing mechanism (Physorg.com, Oct. 11)

Peoples & Culture

Congo Pygmies Go High-Tech to Protect Forest Home (PlanetArk, Oct. 12)

Expedition into the unknown uncovers remote Brazilian tribe threatened by hydroelectric dam (Independent, Oct. 11)

Tracking the evolution of language(L.A. Times, Oct. 11)Site requires free registration

Tuareg nomads set to intensify rebellion in Niger (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 11)

How 'holp' became 'helped' (Nature News, Oct. 10)

Vegan Soul Grows in Washington D.C. (Washington Post, Oct. 10)Site requires free registration

From the People's Offerings, A Feast of a Breakfast For a Studious Monk (Washington Post, Oct. 10)Site requires free registration

How does an Islamic astronaut face Mecca in orbit? (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 10)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Ice age not a global phenomenon: study (Physorg.com, Oct. 11)

Climate change likely to increase fires(YahooNews/AP, Oct. 11)

Thunderstorm Gamma Rays Linked to Lightning (National Geographic News, Oct. 11)

Warmth makes the world more humid (BBC News, Oct. 10)

Mixed Atlantic hurricane season puzzles experts (ENN, Oct. 10)

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

Belarus to Start Nuclear Plant Next Year (PlanetArk, Oct. 12)

Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize (BBC News, Oct. 12)

Druze wives hope to reclaim old ties (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 12)

Costa Rica expropriates land to protect turtles (ENN, Oct. 11)

Nobel in Chemistry Honors Expert on Surface Encounters (N.Y. Times, Oct. 11)Site requires free registration

In Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, peace and a woman rule (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 11)

Plants & Animals

Ants Corral and Tranquilize Victims (LiveScience, Oct. 12)

Over and out from tagged walruses (BBC News, Oct. 11)

Plant Viruses From Past Provide Ecological Clues (ScienceDaily, Oct. 11)

Frozen Sperm Worked For White Rhino(ScienceDaily, Oct. 11)

Sandpiper on brink of extinction (YahooNews/AP, Oct. 11)

Study: high levels of toxic chemicals in younger orcas (Seattle Times, Oct. 11)

Scientists study frogs' toe-pad adhesion (YahooNews/AP, Oct. 11)

The benefits of 80 million years without sex (Physorg.com, Oct. 11)

Penguins take fishing trips with their buddies (New Scientist, Oct. 10)

Crocodiles Really Shed Tears While Eating, Study Says (National Geographic News, Oct. 10)

Moose use 'human shield' to avoid hungry bears (New Scientist, Oct. 10)

Bumblebees Make Sudden Disappearance (OPB News, Oct. 9)

New effort to conserve bug life (BBC News, Oct. 9)

Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus (Scientific American, Oct. 4)

Science & Technology

New Plastic as Strong as Steel (LiveScience, Oct. 11)

Film gets sticky by resisting unsticking (Nature News, Oct. 11)

Students compete to design solar homes (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 11)

Power from space? Pentagon likes the ide (MSNBC, Oct. 11)

Panel Sees Problems in Ethanol Production (N.Y. Times, Oct. 11)Site requires free registration

"Virtual Robots" Befuddled by Optical Illusions (National Geographic News, Oct. 11)

India Lets Mills Produce Ethanol from Cane Juice (PlanetArk, Oct. 10)

Deep Rocks Yield First Look Inside San Andreas Fault (ENN, Oct. 10)

Space

Early Venus Had Oceans, May Have Been Habitable (National Geographic News, Oct. 11)

Stellar Explosion Outshines Sun 100 Billion Times (Space.com, Oct. 11)

NASA Orbiter Provides Color Views of Mars Landing Site Candidates (Physorg.com, Oct. 11)

Stretching the Search for Signs of Life (N.Y. Times, Oct. 11)Site requires free registration

Pluto-bound probe's Jupiter vista (BBC News, Oct. 10)

Geysers Gush from Cracks in Saturn's Moon (LiveScience, Oct. 10)

Did Venus's ancient oceans incubate life? (New Scientist, Oct. 10)

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