Archaeology & Paleontology

Ingredients for Salad Dressing Found in 2,400-year-old Shipwreck (LiveScience, Nov. 8)

Biblical bad girl was a powerful ancient figure (MSNBC, Nov. 8)

Greenville students use chickens to learn about mummification (Appleton Post-Crescent, Nov. 8)

Shark Ate Amphibian Ate Fish: First "Food-Chain Fossil" (National Geographic News, Nov. 8)

Mexican standoff: the battle of Chichen Itza (Independent, Nov. 7)

Why Dinosaurs Had 'Fowl' Breath (ScienceDaily, Nov. 7)

Facelift for world's tallest ancient Buddha statue in China (YahooNews/AFP, Nov. 6)

Prisoners or slaves? New row over wreck's bones (Guardian, Nov. 6)

Body remains date back 1,660 years(Kelowna Capital News, Nov. 2)

Environment

Seawater Treatment Plants Could Combat Climate Change (LiveScience, Nov. 9)

Congo Experts Hurry to Test River for Radiation (PlanetArk, Nov. 9)

Large cleanup after San Francisco oil spill (ENN/Reuters, Nov. 9)Ship crashes into Bay Bridge tower, spills fuel oil (San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 8)

Peanut Husks Could Be Used Clean Up Waste Water(ScienceDaily, Nov. 8)

Scientists Enhance Mother Nature's Carbon Handling Mechanism (ScienceDaily, Nov. 8)

Palm oil warning for Indonesia (BBC News, Nov. 8)

Big food companies accused of risking climate catastrophe (Guardian, Nov. 8)

Ocean Garbage Gets Attention From US (ENN, Nov. 7)

Sowing the seeds of uncertainty (BBC News, Nov. 7)

Switch to coal threatens to worsen global warming (New Scientist, Nov. 7)

Cuts Urged in China’s and India’s Energy Growth (N.Y. Times, Nov. 7)Site requires free registration

Water reuse: a solution to drought in the Florida wetlands (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 7)

Project to Capture CO2 With Plankton Puts to Sea (N.Y. Times, Nov. 6)Site requires free registration

Exploration & Adventure

Antarctic expedition in full swing in greeting International Polar Year (Peoples Daily Online, Nov. 8)

Ice expedition tests 'successful' (BBC News, Nov. 8)

Scientists help map Antarctic ice sheets (Newslink, Nov. 7)

Medicine & Health

Bug-Zapper: A Dose Of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria (TerraDaily/SPX, Nov. 9)

Cholera and Dengue Threaten Mexican Flood Victims (ENN, Nov. 8)

Ship Emissions Causing 60,000 Deaths a Year (PlanetArk, Nov. 7)

Peoples & Culture

Togetherness: Bedouin family ties (BBC News, Nov. 8)

Poles flood Britain, take new ideas back home (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 8)

Gay Muslims Find Freedom, of a Sort, in the U.S. (N.Y. Times, Nov. 7)Site requires free registration

Natural Disasters & Weather

University's High-Tech Tools Helped Combat Wildfires (TerraDaily/SPX, Nov. 9)

Yellowstone Is Rising on Swollen "Supervolcano" (National Geographic News, Nov. 8)

Indonesian volcano roaring to life (YahooNews/AP, Nov. 9)Indonesian volcano erupting slowly: volcanologist (TerraDaily/AFP, Nov. 7)

'Polar rain' is triggering new kind of aurora (New Scientist, Nov. 7)

Rains Bring Mexico's Poverty to Surface (Washington Post, Nov. 7)Site requires free registration

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

Running Out of Space to Park, and Places to Walk [Athens] (N.Y. Times, Nov. 9)Site requires free registration

Many Mammals Came from India (LiveScience, Nov. 8)

Florida's "Red Tide" Mystery Tied to Mississippi River (National Geographic News, Nov. 8)

Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says (National Geographic News, Nov. 7)

Forced to Run Straight, a River Must Now Twist (N.Y. Times, Nov. 7)Site requires free registration

Rediscovering a Hidden Island [Vieques] (N.Y. Times, Nov. 7)Site requires free registration

Maldives Warns Global Warming Threatening Islands (PlanetArk, Nov. 7)

Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland (N.Y. Times, Nov. 7)Site requires free registration

Plants & Animals

Rare butterfly puts stop to construction (Physorg.com, Nov. 9)

When Animals Evolve On Islands, Size Doesn't Matter (ScienceDaily, Nov. 8)

Thinking caps reveal how pigeons find their way (Nature News, Nov. 8)

Toads mate across the species divide (Nature News, Nov. 8)

In pictures: Nepal dogs honoured (BBC News, Nov. 8)

Progress on 'collapsing' beehives (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 8)

The Amur Tiger Offers An Encouraging Word: Success (ENN, Nov. 7)

Australian scientists decode whale sounds (YahooNews/Reuters, Nov. 7)

Fear no smell (Nature News, Nov. 7)

Black rhinos find new home on community land in South Africa (WWF, Nov. 7)

Fish Vanishing from Southeast Asian Oceans (PlanetArk, Nov. 7)

Science & Technology

New Technology Can Be Operated By Thought (ScienceDaily, Nov. 9)

Fuel Without the Fossil (N.Y. Times, Nov. 9)Site requires free registration

Surprise Contenders in Global Biodiesel Race (LiveScience, Nov. 8)

Smile, protons, you're on camera (Physorg.com, Nov. 8)

Mud microbes power turtle-tracking sensors (New Scientist, Nov. 8)

China begins world-record wheel (BBC News, Nov. 7)

'Robo-moth' melds insect, machine (L.A. Times, Nov. 7)Site requires free registration

Huge Fridge Colder Than Outer Space (LiveScience, Nov. 7)

Range Says Will Make Wood Cellulosic Fuel in 2008 (PlanetArk, Nov. 7)

Space

Mars's tiny moons – one small step for mankind? (New Scientist, Nov. 8)

NASA pressed to avert catastrophic Deep Impact (YahooNews/AFP, Nov. 8)

Mars rover Spirit to head north for the winter(New Scientist, Nov. 8)

Clue to cosmic rays discovered (BBC News, Nov. 8)

Newfound Planets are Scorching Hot (Space.com, Nov. 8)

Beijing 'planning space station'(BBC News, Nov. 7)

Space Shuttle Discovery Returns to Earth Safely (Space.com, Nov. 7)

Record-Setting Fifth Planet Found Orbiting Nearby Star (National Geographic News, Nov. 6)

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