Archaeology & Paleontology

Debate Over ‘Little People’ Intensifies After Recent Island Discovery [Flores.] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Workers uncovering mummified dinosaur [Funded by Nat'l. Geographic.] (Yahoo!/AP, Mar. 18)

First Rule Of Evolution Suggests That Life Is Destined To Become More Complex (TerraDaily/SPX, Mar. 18)

Stone Age Hand Axes Found at Bottom of North Sea (Nat'l. Geographic News, Mar. 17)

Older than the pyramids, buried for centuries – found by an Orkney plumber [Neolithic art.] (Scotsman, Mar. 17)

UAF archaeologist strikes it big in Norway; uncovers new species of ancient ‘monster’ [Pliosaur.] (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Feb. 16)

Out of Africa, Not Once But Twice (Discovery, Mar. 14)

DOC discovers moa bones, survey begins (Timaru Herald, Mar. 14)

Miners Arrested for Damaging Chinese Archaeology Site (Nat'l. Geographic News, Mar. 14)

Environment

Olympic Officials Want to Clear the Air: Pollution Could Affect Athletes in Beijing [China.] (Washington Post, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Man-Made Chemicals May Put Strain on Fish [Potomac River.] (Washington Post, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

In a Warmer Yellowstone Park, a Shifting Environmental Balance (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Water Everywhere, But Not Clean Enough To Drink (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 17)

Glaciers suffer record shrinkage (BBC News, Mar. 16)

Fishing Ban Considered as Salmon Dwindle (NPR, Mar. 14)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise in China (NPR, Mar. 14)

The World's Dirtiest Cities (Int'l. Herald Tribune/Forbes, Mar. 13)

The Secrets Of Successful Ecosystems (TerraDaily/SPX, Mar. 13)

Exploration & Adventure

Russian Scientists Honored for Exploration of Arctic Seabed (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Will it be possible to climb Everest this year? (MountEverest.net, Mar. 17)

Japan sailor takes on Pacific in wave-powered boat (ENN/Reuters, Mar. 17)

Conquered by St. Patrick's Mountain [Irish peak Croagh Patrick.] (Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 17)

Kite-Driven Beluga Skysail Completes 12,000 Mile Journey and Proves Concept (ENN/Triple Pundit, Mar. 17)

Polar Opposites: A Night Out With Sam Branson [Accompanying Will Steger's Canadian Arctic expedition to highlight global warming.] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 16) Site requires free registration

A Bright Spot of Life on the Icy Continent [U.S. South Pole Research Station.] (NPR, Mar. 15)

Medicine & Health

Male fertility 'set in the womb' (BBC News, Mar. 17)

Blood Discovery: New Hemoglobin Type Found(Science Daily, Mar. 17)

World Sanitation Goals Slip; Nature Can Help (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 17)

How we judge the thoughts of others (Nature News, Mar. 17)

Eliot Spitzer and the Price-Placebo Effect [Human behavior.] (Washington Post, Mar. 17) Site requires free registration

Disgusting videos key to first-ever brain imaging study comparing ways of controlling emotions (PhysOrg, Mar. 17)

Clean break from cycle of disease [Bangladesh.] (BBC News, Mar. 15)

Peoples & Culture

Camels Go Easily Through the Eyes of Admirers [Saudi Arabia.] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 17) Site requires free registration

Svalbard, where man and polar bears share the art of living [Norway.] (TerraDaily/AFP, Mar. 16)

Seeking Recognition for a War’s Lost Laborers [Thailand in World War II.] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 16) Site requires free registration

'Ithaca was Homeric land of Odysseus’ (Kathimerini/Reuters, Mar. 15)

Indigenous people can offer climate change solutions: IUCN (TerraDaily/AFP, Mar. 14)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Atlanta examines tornado damage (Yahoo!/AP, Mar. 17)

NOAA Launches Final Two Buoys To Complete U.S. Tsunami Warning System (Science Daily, Mar. 13)

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

Queenfish: A Cold War Tale [Arctic Ocean.] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Pumping Iron on Two Sides of Haiti’s Class Divide (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Major League Baseball Arrives in China, but Traditions Don’t Quite Translate (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Nauru seeks to regain lost fortunes [Pacific island nation.] (BBC News, Mar. 15)

Tibet, a tourist mecca, closed to foreigners: tour operators (Sino Daily/AFP, Mar. 15)

Plants & Animals

Tail 'key' for gecko acrobatics (BBC News, Mar. 18)

Heavy horse breeds under threat (BBC News, Mar. 18)

How mammals lost their egg yolks (New Scientist, Mar. 18)

Florida panther population fell to just six (New Scientist, Mar. 18)

In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18)

Leakey backing for elephant cull (BBC News, Mar. 17)

On the Trail of the Cat, Scientists Find Surprises (Washington Post, Mar. 17) Site requires free registration

New Bird Species Discovered [Indonesia's Togian Islands.] (Science Daily, Mar. 17)

Royal Corruption Is Rife In The Ant World (Science Daily, Mar. 17)

Zoo beasts must battle the bulge, too (Yahoo!/AP, Mar. 17)

Where Are Asia's Endangered Wild Elephants? (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 17)

Rare North Island Brown Kiwi Hatches At Smithsonian's National Zoo (ENN/Smithsonian, Mar. 17)

Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace (N.Y. Times, Mar. 17) Site requires free registration

Seeing Red Over Bid to Clone a Bull (Washington Post, Mar. 15) Site requires free registration

Bird uses 'whiskers' like a cat (Nature News, Mar. 14)

Prized fish the latest liquid asset for Asia's super-rich [Very rare Arowana fish.] (TerraDaily/AFP, Mar. 14)

Scientists warn of wheat disease (BBC News, Mar. 13)

Science & Technology

They May Not Use Gasoline, but They Sure Burn Through Water [Electric cars & plug-in hybrids.] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Site requires free registration

Zirconia Helps Jet Engines Take The Heat (Red Orbit, Mar. 17)

The 10 Questions Shaping 21st-Century Earth Sciences (TerraDaily/SPX, Mar. 13)

Space

Astronauts to attach robot to station (Yahoo!/AP, Mar. 18)

Space planes 'to meet big demand' (BBC News, Mar. 17)

Preventing Pearl Harbor in Space (Universe Today, Mar. 17)

Puzzling 'Eye Of A Hurricane' On Venus (Science Daily, Mar. 17)

An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy (PhysOrg, Mar. 17)

Space Junk, Toxic Fuel Rains Down on Siberian Region (Universe Today, Mar. 17)

Nasa's chief talks new approach [Exploring the outer solar system...] (BBC News, Mar. 15)

Crashed probe yields Sun secrets (BBC News, Mar. 15)

Designing A Lunar Telescope To See Into The Dark Ages (Science Daily, Mar. 15)

Saturn moon 'once had ocean' (BBC News, Mar. 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