Archaeology & Paleontology

'Super-scope' shines on Mary Rose (BBC News, Feb. 8)

Ancient Maya Used "Glitter" Paint to Make Temple Gleam (National Geographic News, Feb. 7)

Evidence of fossil bugs found in volcanic bubble (New Scientist, Feb. 7)

Indian Fossil Bed Being Ground Into Cement (National Geographic News, Feb. 6)

Earliest Oil Paintings Found in Famed Afghan Caves (National Geographic News, Feb. 6)

Does a cave prove Romulus and Remus are no myth? (USA Today, Feb. 6)

Lice from mummies provide clues to ancient migrations (International Herald Tribune, Feb. 6)

Avian Origins: New Analysis Confirms Ancient Beginnings (TerraDaily/SPX, Feb. 6)

In Timbuktu, a new move to save ancient manuscripts (Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 5)

Hope of finding first King's home [Scotland's Palace of Forteviot] (BBC News, Feb. 4)

Royal Goddesses of a Bronze Age State (Archaeology Magazine, Jan./Feb.)

Environment

BP's ARCO to Pay US$187 Million for Cleanup (Planet Ark/Reuters, Feb. 8)

Clearing Land for Biofuels Makes Global Warming Worse (National Geographic News, Feb. 7)

In Many Communities, It’s Not Easy Going Green (N.Y. Times, Feb. 7) Site requires free registration

Tipping Elements In Earth's Climate System (ScienceDaily, Feb. 7)

Experts challenge ice shelf claim (BBC News, Feb. 7)

The Little Ice Age Myth (NPR, Feb. 7)

New Insights Into Southern Ocean's Role In Global Climate (TerraDaily/SPX, Feb. 6)

Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity (Nature News, Feb. 6)

Human Activities Triggering "Global Soil Change" (National Geographic News, Feb. 5)

Exploration & Adventure

The race to chase Sahara's sand (BBC News, Feb. 6)

ExWeb's end of season Antarctica report: Kids of Amundsen (ThePoles.com, Feb. 6)

Arctic Tara touches land for the first time in 500 days (ThePoles.com, Feb. 4)

Medicine & Health

WHO Unveils Global Plan to Fight Smoking (NPR, Feb. 8)

Obesity 'may be largely genetic' (BBC News, Feb. 7)

Tattoos may help deliver vaccine (BBC News, Feb. 7)

A fruit a day may keep Alzheimer's away (PhysOrg, Feb. 7)

Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion by 2100 (LiveScience/AP, Feb. 7)

Transparent Adult Zebra Fish Will Make Human Biology Even Clearer (ScienceDaily, Feb. 7)

Antiretroviral Drugs May Protect Against Sexual Transmission Of HIV (ScienceDaily, Feb. 7)

When kissing cousins are good for kids (Nature News, Feb. 7)

Window opened on Alzheimer's conundrum (Nature News, Feb. 6)

A step towards three-parent babies? (Nature News, Feb. 6)

Marriage: It's Only Going to Get Worse (Yahoo News/LiveScience, Feb. 5)

New Way to Kill Viruses: Shake Them to Death (LiveScience, Feb. 5)

Peoples & Culture

China tries to shrug off cold and celebrate Year of the Rat (TerraDaily/AFP, Feb. 7)

Temple demolitions anger Malaysia Indians (Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 7)

Mobiles narrow digital divisions (BBC News, Feb. 7)

Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable' (BBC News, Feb. 7)

Turks move to ease headscarf ban (BBC News, Feb. 7)

Kenya Honey-Gathering Forest Tribe Caught in Violence (National Geographic News, Feb. 5)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Tornado Toll Hits 57, But Survivors Found (Washington Post, Feb. 8) Site requires free registration

Ecuador Peasants Defy Roaring Volcano, Return Home (Planet Ark/Reuters, Feb. 8)

Ecuador Volcano Erupts, Thousands to Be Evacuated (National Geographic News/AP, Feb. 7)

Winter Tornadoes Can Be Faster, Deadlier, Experts Say (National Geographic News, Feb. 6)

China snows show world faces new disasters (ENN/Reuters, Feb. 6)

Thousands hit by Bolivian floods (BBC News, Feb. 6)

Gibraltar Arc Active Faults Mapped To Prevent Earthquakes (TerraDaily/SPX, Feb. 6)

Tsunami threat hangs over southern Italy (New Scientist, Feb. 5)

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 floods, Mexico's Tabasco rebounds (Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 8)

Uranium Exploration Near Grand Canyon (N.Y. Times, Feb. 7) Site requires free registration

A human rights statistician finds truth in numbers (Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 7)

Plants & Animals

Search For Extreme Organisms In Antarctica (TerraDaily/SPX, Feb. 7)

Apparently immaculate Komodos hatched (Yahoo News/AP, Feb. 7)

Noah's Arctic Ark for Seeds Set to Open (Yahoo News/LiveScience, Feb. 7)

Accelerometer backpacks aid study of gliding behavior in the 'flying' lemur (PhysOrg, Feb. 7)

Polar Bears' Plight Raised In Drill Bids For Oil, Gas (Washington Post, Feb. 7) Site requires free registration

Beetles damaging Yellowstone whitebark pine trees (Billings Gazette, Feb. 7)

South Asian nations pledge cooperation on rampant wildlife trade(ENN, Feb. 7)

DNA 'barcode' revealed in plants (BBC News, Feb. 6)

'Monogamous' vole in love-rat shock (Nature News, Feb. 6)

Super-size me: Alligators reveal digestive trick (New Scientist, Feb. 6)

Alien species named and shamed on European list (New Scientist, Feb. 6)

Female reptile spreads labour over nine days (New Scientist, Feb. 6)

"Stay at Home" Baboon Dads Raise Healthier Kids (National Geographic News, Feb. 5)

Science & Technology

Google Says to Help Green Technologies Amass Scale (Planet Ark/Reuters, Feb. 8)

Robot glider harvests ocean heat (BBC News, Feb. 8)

Sea change for energy generation (BBC News, Feb. 8)

Knee-Brace Generator Offers Portable "Power Plant" (National Geographic News, Feb. 7)

Office block warmed by body heat (BBC News, Feb. 7)

Eyeglass-Free 3-D Movies on the Horizon (National Geographic News, Feb. 6)

Robotic Observatory Built on Remote Antarctic Summit (National Geographic News, Feb. 6)

Hypersonic passenger jet designed (BBC News, Feb. 5)

With Mini in vivo Robots, Anyone Can do Surgery (PhysOrg, Feb. 5)

Remote-control DNA 'pistons' could power tiny robots (New Scientist, Feb. 5)

Space

Day 2: Crew to check Atlantis for damage (Yahoo News/AP, Feb. 8)

Space Shuttle "Atlantis" Blasts Off (National Geographic News/AP, Feb. 7)

Million-Degree Plasma May Flow throughout the Galaxy (PhysOrg, Feb. 7)

No major hurdles to upgrade Atlas V rockets for people (New Scientist, Feb. 7)

Space freighter given launch date (BBC News, Feb. 6)

The long quest for life on Mars (BBC News, Feb. 6)

Titanic climate change in store (Nature News, Feb. 6)

The Moon: destination or distraction? (Nature News, Feb. 6)

Probe catches glimpse of surface troughs on Mercury (Nature News, Feb. 6)

Japan scientists make paper planes for space (ENN/Reuters, Feb. 6)

Scientists explain big vapor plume on Saturn moon (Yahoo News/Reuters, Feb. 6)

Galaxy without dark matter puzzles astronomers (New Scientist, Feb. 6)

Exploding black holes could expose hidden dimensions (New Scientist, Feb. 5)

NASA calls for ambitious outer solar system mission (New Scientist, Feb. 5)

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