Archaeology & Paleontology

World War II Plane Discovered in Wales (NPR, Nov. 16)

Women warriors may have battled in ancient Cambodia (Yahoo News/AFP, Nov. 15)

Bizarre Dinosaur Grazed Like a Cow, Study Says (National Geographic News, Nov. 15)

Maya Rituals Caused Ancient Decline in Big Game (National Geographic News, Nov. 15)

Eco-ruin 'felled early society' [Bronze Age Argaric people in south-east Spain] (BBC News, Nov. 15)

Baltic yields 'perfect' shipwreck (BBC News, Nov. 15)

Roman road, bath unearthed near Jewish temple site (Yahoo News/Reuters, Nov. 15)

Archeologists discover 1,700-year-old Roman-era cemetery in northeast Syria (International Herald Tribune/AP, Nov. 15)

Governors Pushing Caps on Greenhouse Gases (N.Y. Times, Nov. 15) Site requires free registration

Discoverer of Lucy Fossil Weighs in on Human Evolution (VOA News, Nov. 14)

Environment

Paying Farmers to Protect the Planet is Future - UN (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 16)

Russian Oil Spill Killing Dolphins, Says Watchdog (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 16)

North American flora can't absorb continent's greenhouse gas output (San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 15)

Life in Peru's most polluted town (BBC News, Nov. 15)

NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face (ENN/NASA, Nov. 15)

Large Cleanup After San Francisco Oil Spill (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 15)

As China's Mega Dam Rises, So Do Strains and Fear (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 15)

Australians named worst emitters (BBC News, Nov. 14)

Record amount of waste dumped in China's Yangtze River (TerraDaily/AFP, Nov. 14)

Russian oil slick clean-up 'could take months': WWF (Yahoo News/AFP, Nov. 14)

Pollution is dimming India's sunshine (New Scientist, Nov. 14)

Brazil Seeks Aid From UN Chief to Protect Amazon (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 14)

In new take on carbon-trading, Indonesia may get paid to save trees (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 14)

Exploration & Adventure

"National Geographic Adventure" Names Andrew Skurka 2007 Adventurer of the Year (National Geographic, Nov. 15)

Antarctic expedition to further our understanding of nature (China Daily, Nov. 13)

American Entrepreneur and British Adventurer Set Out to Break World Record for Unassisted Trek to South Pole on Sub-Zero Antarctic Expedition (Business Wire, Nov. 12)

Medicine & Health

Paralysed man's mind is 'read' (BBC News, Nov. 15)

Virulent Form of Cold Virus Spreads in U.S (ENN/Reuters, Nov. 15)

Sleeping brain plays back events in fast-forward (Nature News, Nov. 15)

Menstrual blood could be rich source of stem cells (New Scientist, Nov. 15)

Hope for tailored cancer vaccine (BBC News, Nov. 14)

Sharp Drop Seen in Deaths From Ills Fought by Vaccine (N.Y. Times, Nov. 14) Site requires free registration

Mental effects of war delayed for months (New Scientist, Nov. 14)

What's in Your Genes? Ancient Parasites (Yahoo News/LiveScience, Nov. 14)

Peoples & Culture

'Once Great' Britain searches for a national motto (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 16)

African Crucible: Cast as Witches, Then Cast Out (N.Y. Times, Nov. 15) Site requires free registration

Jihad and the Saudi petrodollar (BBC News, Nov. 15)

Upwardly mobile Afghanistan (BBC News, Nov. 14)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Bangladesh cyclone toll tops 500 (Washington Post/Reuters, Nov. 16) Site requires free registration

Strong Quake Kills Two in Chile, Injures 150 (National Geographic News/AP, Nov. 15)

'Ultrasound' of Earth's crust reveals inner workings of a tsunami factory (PhysOrg, Nov. 15)

Hurricanes Katrina, Rita Produce U.S.'s Largest Forestry Disaster (Washington Post, Nov. 15) Site requires free registration

Central Vietnam Struggles With New Flood Disaster (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 14)

More than 600 killed, millions impacted by Yangtze flooding (TerraDaily/AFP, Nov. 14)

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

After flood, long-term test for Mexico (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 16)

Island Nations Plan for Rising Seas, Mass Migration (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 15)

In Maryland, sea slowly claims a historic island (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 15)

How to fight a rising sea [Netherlands] (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 15)

Mobile phones reach Uganda's villages (BBC News, Nov. 15)

Plants & Animals

Scientists harvest fish oil crop (BBC News, Nov. 16)

Doomsday vault begins deep freeze (BBC News, Nov. 16)

Mating toads leap the species barrier (New Scientist, Nov. 16)

Mass Wildebeest Drowning: Were Tourists to Blame? (National Geographic News, Nov. 15)

Pets Massacred in Puerto Rico (National Geographic News, Nov. 15)

Environmentalists: Protect sea turtles (Yahoo News/AP, Nov. 15)

Scientists catalogue oceans amid human, climate threats (Yahoo News/AFP, Nov. 15)

Tropical Fish Can Live for Months Out of Water (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 15)

Court Seeks New Balance in US Navy V. Whales Case (Planet Ark/Reuters, Nov. 15)

Whitefly Secrets To Success: How To Become One Of The World's Top Invasive Species (ScienceDaily, Nov. 15)

Gene in male fish lures females into sex (PhysOrg, Nov. 15)

World's Largest Trout Thrives in Mongolia -- For Now (National Geographic News, Nov. 14)

57 New Freshwater Fish Species Found in Europe (National Geographic News, Nov. 14)

Breakthrough in primate cloning (BBC News, Nov. 14)

Methane-Guzzling Bacteria Thrive in Bubbling Mud Pots (LiveScience, Nov. 14)

Why Some Animals Eat Their Offspring (Yahoo News/LiveScience, Nov. 14)

Science & Technology

New Technology Sharpens 3-D Movies (NPR, Nov. 16)

Bat noses inspire robotic sonar (Nature News, Nov. 16)

Robo-Roaches Can Control Insect Groups (National Geographic News, Nov. 15)

Molecular 'amplifier' boosts DNA computing (New Scientist, Nov. 15)

Carbon-Dioxide Plastic Gets Funding [Biodegradable] (Technology Review, Nov. 14)

Space

Gap in U.S. Access to Space Station Is a Concern (N.Y. Times, Nov. 16) Site requires free registration

Mars rover crippled and blinded as instruments fail (New Scientist, Nov. 16)

Europe eyes Mars landing sites (BBC News, Nov. 15)

Incredible Comet Bigger than the Sun (Yahoo News/Space.com, Nov. 15)

Inflatable Moon Base Prototype Heads to South Pole (Yahoo News/Space.com, Nov. 15)

Multi-star pile-up caused brightest supernova (New Scientist, Nov. 14)

Small planets forming in the Pleiades: astronomers (Yahoo News/Reuters, Nov. 14)

NASA Breaks Ground on Test Launch Pad for New Spacecraft (Space.com, Nov. 14)

Japan takes first high-definition image of Earth rising (Yahoo News/AFP, Nov. 14)

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