Archaeology & Paleontology

New Dinosaur In Mexico Lured Mates With Giant Horns (PlanetArk, Mar. 25)

Corn's Roots Dig Deeper Into South America (TerraDaily/SPX, mar. 250

Bison bones bolster idea Ice Age seafarers first to Americas (National Post, Mar. 24)

New Fossil Is World's Oldest Plant-Eating Lizard (National Geographic News, Mar. 24)

How the Battle of Actium Changed the World (LiveScience, Mar. 24)

Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-year-old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found (ScienceDaily, Mar. 24)

Oldest Prehistoric Aquatic Reptile in North America Found(LiveScience, Mar. 24)

UofL team determines gender of science center’s mummy (University of Louisville, Mar. 24)

Rome to 'paint' Trajan's Column with light (Physorg.com, Mar. 23)

Stinking seas not to blame for 'mother of all mass extinctions' (YahooNews/AFP, Mar. 23)

Floating A Big Idea: Ancient Use Of Rafts To Transport Goods Demonstrated (ScienceDaily, Mar. 22)

Statue of Pharaonic queen discovered in south Egypt (YahooNews/AFP, Mar. 22)

Environment

Some Algae May Help Corals Withstand Warmer Waters (PlanetArk, Mar. 25)

Far Below the Surface of the World’s Oceans, a Tough Place for Foam Cups (N.Y. Times, Mar. 25)Site requires free registration

Are We Ready to Track Carbon Footprints? (N.Y. Times, Mar. 25)Site requires free registration

Iron Gets Into The North Pacific In Unexpected Ways, Will Impact Climate Change Predictions (ScienceDaily, Mar. 24)

Zebra Mussel Invasion Hits Landmark(redOrbit, Mar. 24)

Major food source threatened by climate change (New Scientist, Mar. 24)

Scientists warn of soot effect on climate (Guardian, Mar. 24)

Since '01, Guarding Species Is Harder (Washington Post, Mar. 23)Site requires free registration

Lofty Pledge to Cut Emissions Comes With Caveat in Norway (N.Y. Times, Mar. 22) Site requires free registration

Greenpeace and guitar makers unite to save forests (ENN, Mar. 22)

Kansas governor vetoes plan for coal power plants (Reuters, Mar. 21)

Exploration & Adventure

NZ climber gets conditional go-ahead for Everest (Stuff, Mar. 25)

Adventurer quits solo pole trek (BBC News, Mar. 23)

Sailor to recreate Phoenicians' epic African voyage (Independent, Mar. 22)

Japanese Adventurer, 75, Leaves For Everest (AHN, Mar. 20)

Medicine & Health

TB Patients Chafe Under Lockdown in South Africa (N.Y. Times, Mar. 25)Site requires free registration

World's Tallest Man Struggles to Fit In (LiveScience, Mar. 24)

Cloning treats mouse Parkinson's (BBC News, Mar. 23)

Peoples & Culture

Japan welcomes spring with first cherry blossoms (ENN/Reuters, Mar. 24)

In Babel of Tongues, Suriname Seeks Itself(N.Y. Times, Mar. 23)Site requires free registration

DR Congo's 'dangerous' superstition (BBC News, Mar. 23)

Voice for Abused Women Upsets Dubai Patriarchy(N.Y. Times, Mar. 23)Site requires free registration

Oil Exploration in Amazon Threatens "Unseen" Tribes (National Geographic News, Mar. 21)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Rivers keep rising in Arkansas, Missouri (YahooNews/AP, Mar. 25)

Drought And Flooding Seen For The US-NOAA (PlanetArk, Mar. 25)

Earthquake strikes northern Chile (BBC News, Mar. 24)

Gulf Stream Leaves Its Signature Seven Miles High (ScienceDaily, Mar. 24)

Drought-hit Cyprus starts emergency water rations (Reuters, Mar. 24)

Research could lead to sharks predicting weather (Physorg.com, Mar. 24)

Giant waves break up Caribbean coral (YahooNews/AP, Mar. 23)

Lightning strikes governed by moving cloud layers (New Scientist, Mar. 23)

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

Giant ocean eddy shadows Sydney (Physorg.com, Mar. 25)

Hard Times Hit a Postage-Stamp Land (N.Y. Times, Mar. 25)Site requires free registration

Water pollution continues at famous Russian lake (Physorg.com, Mar. 24)

New findings from Tibetan Plateau suggest uplift occurred in stages(Physorg.com, Mar. 24)

Warming Could Radically Change Lake Tahoe in 10 Years(Physorg.com, Mar. 24)

In Atlanta's 'Cabbagetown' neighborhood, a storm brings peace (Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 24)

One Man's Personal Mission To End Slavery in Mauritania (Washington Post, Mar. 23)Site requires free registration

Plants & Animals

Tuatara - The Fastest Evolving Animal (TerraDaily/SPX, Mar. 25)

Mantis Shrimp Vision Reveals New Way That Animals Can See (TerraDaily/SPX, Mar. 25)

Insects Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Plants In A Higher Carbon Dioxide World (ScienceDaily, Mar. 25)

Link to Global Warming in Frogs’ Disappearance Is Challenged (N.Y. Times, Mar. 25)Site requires free registration

Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why (N.Y. Times, Mar. 25)Site requires free registration

Alien Invasion: Scientists Try to Weed Out Invasive Sea Squirts (Redorbit, Mar. 24)

Smelling a rat to catch a rat (Physorg.com, Mar. 24)

Scientists reveal ants as fungus farmers(Physorg.com, Mar. 24)

Scientists work to save endangered chimps (Physorg.com, Mar. 24)

End of Maoist strife spurs Nepal rhino numbers (ENN/Reuters, Mar. 24)

'Praying' dog at Japanese temple (BBC News, Mar. 24)

Anger Over Culling of Yellowstone’s Bison (N.Y. Times, Mar. 23)Site requires free registration

Tons of pangolins seized in a week (WWF, Mar. 21)

Science & Technology

Futuristic Floor Glows With Each Footstep (LiveScience, Mar. 25)

Tiny Buckyballs Squeeze Hydrogen Like Giant Jupiter (ScienceDaily, Mar. 24)

Got milk? Convert it into biofuel (MSNBC, Mar. 24)

'Twisting' light packs more information into one photon (New Scientist, Mar. 23)

Space

NASA Budget Cuts Will Deactivate Mars Rover (redOrbit, Mar. 25)

Endeavour and crew leave space station (YahooNews/AP, Mar. 25)

Does a boomerang thrown in space return to its pitcher? (New Scientist, Mar. 24)

Icy Moon Tethys Had Ancient Underground Ocean (National Geographic News, Mar. 24)

New Kink in Sun's Strange Corona (LiveScience, Mar. 24)

An 'Astounding Time' for Planetary Discoveries (Washington Post, Mar. 24)Site requires free registration

Astronauts enjoying own march madness (YahooNews/AP, Mar. 24)

Ancient Asteroids Formed At Solar System's Start (ScienceDaily, Mar. 23)

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