Archaeology & Paleontology

Spain claims $500 million in sunken treasure (Physorg.com, May 9)

Animal Interaction Behind Cambrian Explosion? 'Missing' Ancestors Of Today's Animals May Not Be Missing After All (ScienceDaily, May 8)

Italian builders uncover 2,000-year-old tombs (Scotsman, May 8)

Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed (National Geographic News, May 8)

Early whales got the bends (New Scientist, May 8)

Egyptian elite tombs accessible for all (Physorg.com, May 8)

Sea creatures had a thing for bling(New Scientist, May 8)

Irish Viking trade centre unearthed (BBC News, May 6)

Environment

Petrify, Liquefy: New Ways To Bury Greenhouse Gas (PlanetArk, May 9)

World's Dirt Deteriorates (LiveScience, May 8)

Clean Air Could Kill The Amazon, Researchers Say (PlanetArk, May 8)

Food waste on 'staggering' scale (BBC News, May 8)

Brazil, India's Citizens Are Greenest, Survey Finds(National Geographic News, May 7)

Women Face Tougher Impact From Climate Change (PlanetArk, May 7)

Climate scientists call for their own 'Manhattan Project' (New Scientist, May 7)

Melting glaciers release toxic chemical cocktail (New Scientist, May 7)

A City Committed to Recycling Is Ready for More (N.Y. Times, May 7)Site requires free registration

Mangrove loss 'put Burma at risk' (BBC News, May 6)

Exploration & Adventure

Arctic adventurer Flip Byrnes rescued, feet like mince (news.com.au, May 8)

Nepal lifts ban on Everest summit (BBC News, May 8)

Olympic flame lit at Everest peak (BBC News, May 8)

Adventurer relives Mawson's legendary Antarctic journey (ABC News Online, may 7)

Medicine & Health

Why hip fat is good, but pot bellies are bad (New Scientist, May 9)

New cancer gene found (Physorg.com, May 8)

Speaking More Than One Language May Slow The Aging Process In The Mind (ScienceDaily, May 8)

First Steps Toward Autonomous Robot Surgeries (ScienceDaily, May 7)

Risk Of Bird Flu Pandemic Probably Growing-Experts (PlanetArk, May 7)

Can baldness be blamed on air pollution? (Daily Mail, May 5)

Peoples & Culture

Malaysian woman can leave Islam (BBC News, May 8)

Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face (N.Y. Times, May 8)Site requires free registration

Duwamish tribe sues to reverse 'extinct' status (Seattle P-I, May 7)

Indonesians use Koran to teach environmentalism (International Herald Tribune, May 7)

Gene trawl shows Druze are living "gene sanctuary"(YahooNews/Reuters, May 7)

Palestinian festival of dance – and debate (Christian Science Monitor, May 6)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Huge Texas sinkhole's appetite decreasing, officials say (AP, May 9)

Fresh fears over Chilean volcano (BBC News, May 8)

Vets Rescue Pets Near Erupting Chile Volcano (PlanetArk, May 8)

The Earth Moves. Annandale Yawns. (Washington Post, May 7)Site requires free registration

The Worst Natural Disasters Ever (LiveScience, may 6)

Myanmar cylone

Cyclone Nargis (New York Times)Site requires free registration

Full Coverage: Myanmar (YahooNews)

Burma cyclone (BBC News)

Cyclone Nargis embodied the ‘perfect storm’ (MSNBC, May 8)

Cyclone Nargis And Myanmar Floods Seen From Space (ScienceDaily, May 8)

100,000 May Have Died in Myanmar Cyclone, U.S. Says (National Geographic News, May 7)

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

Salmon Gone, Fishermen Try to Adapt on a Changing Coast (N.Y. Times, May 9)Site requires free registration

Seed Dispersal In Mauritius -- Dead As A Dodo? (ScienceDaily, May 9)

Israel marks its 60th anniversary (BBC News, May 8)

China says Beijing Olympics "basically" carbon neutral (ENN/Reuters, May 8)

Climate Models Overheat Antarctica, New Study Finds (ScienceDaily, May 8)

Wild times in changing China (BBC News, May 8)

Can Tanzania reap bumper harvests? (BBC News, May 8)

Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia, Study Says (National Geographic News, May 8)

European Commission Sues to Force Italy to Take Out the Garbage (N.Y. Times, May 7)Site requires free registration

Tornado-struck Kansas town rebuilds green (Christian Science Monitor, May 6)

Plants & Animals

Cat Urine Makes Mice Macho (LiveScience, May 9)

New batch of walruses gets tagged (BBC News, May 9)

Sexy orchids do more than embarrass wasps? (Reuters, May 8)

What's bugging locusts? (Physorg.com, May 8)

Flame retardant found in peregrine falcon eggs (San Francisco Chronicle, May 8)

Web tool puts wildlife diseases on the map (Physorg.com, May 8)

Bacteria 'can learn'(Nature News, May 8)

Great Tit Birds Shift Mating Schedules Due to Warming (National Geographic News, May 8)

Survey shows US honey bee deaths increased over last year (Washington Post/AP, May 7)Site requires free registration

Cubs A Ray Of Hope In India's Fight To Save Tigers (PlanetArk, May 7)

Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (N.Y. Times, May 7)Site requires free registration

It started with a squeak: Moonlight serenade helps lemurs pick mates of the right species (Physorg.com, May 7)

"Weird" Pygmy Whale Dissected (National Geographic News, May 7)

Platypus Genome Reveals Secrets of Mammal Evolution (National Geographic News, May 7)

Australia's Koalas at risk from climate change (L.A. Times/AP, May 7)Site requires free registration

Camels oust the thirsty tractor (Financial Times, May 3)Site requires free registration

Science & Technology

'Space metals' aid perfection quest (BBC News, May 9)

Device lets ships hear whale chatter, avoid strikes (CNN, May 8)

At MIT, low-tech inventions with a high impact (Christian Science Monitor, May 8)

Heading skyward to beat gridlock (BBC News, May 7)

New Radar Could Reveal Secrets of Earth's Ice Sheets (Space.com, May 7)

Space

Iron 'Snow' Helps Maintain Mercury's Magnetic Field, Scientists Say (ScienceDaily, May 8)

Magnetic rocks may reveal Martian life (New Scientist, May 8)

Wave Pattern Discovered in Saturn's Atmosphere(redOrbit, May 7)

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