Archaeology & Paleontology

From Studying Chimps, a Theory on Cooking (N.Y. Times, Apr. 21) Site requires free registration

China’s Wall Even Greater Than Once Thought (redOrbit, Apr. 20)

A First Look at the Bones of a ‘Hobbit’ (N.Y. Times, Apr. 20) Site requires free registration

Archaeologists hunt for Cleopatra's tomb (Yahoo!/Reuters, Apr. 20)

Origins Of Sulfur In Rocks Tells Early Oxygen Story (TerraDaily/SPX, Apr. 20)

Fossils Suggest Earlier Land-Water Transition Of Tetrapod (TerraDaily/SPX, Apr. 20)

Inca Wall Found During Construction of New Peru Hotel (Latin American Herald Tribune, Apr. 19)

Egypt’s Tomb Raider, Off and (Mostly) on Camera [Zahi Hawass.] (N.Y. Times, Apr. 18) Site requires free registration

Italy: Abruzzo quake unearths prehistoric dwellings (adnkronosinternational. Apr. 17)

Environment

1970s lifestyle 'protects planet' (BBC News, Apr. 20)

Tons of released drugs taint US water (Yahoo!/AP, Apr. 20)

Cyclones spurt water into the stratosphere, feeding global warming (PhysOrg, Apr. 20)

Ocean Dead Zones Likely To Expand: Increasing Carbon Dioxide And Decreasing Oxygen Make It Harder For Deep-sea Animals To Breath (ScienceDaily, Apr. 18)

Exploration & Adventure

Sky diving into an active volcano (BBC News, Apr. 21)

Lack Of Permanent Arctic Ice Surprises Explorers (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 20)

From the NP to the SP; A cold swim and a secret skill (ThePoles, Apr. 20)

Medicine & Health

'Fraction cells' found in human brain (New Scientist, Apr. 21)

Learning Disabilities In Males: Nine New X Chromosome Genes Linked To Learning Disabilities (ScienceDaily, Apr. 20)

India's 'holy powder' finally reveals its centuries-old secret [Turmeric.] (Physorg, Apr. 20)

Why Isn’t the Brain Green? [Human behavior.] (NYT Magazine, Apr. 19) Site requires free registration

Cancer brake 'could halt disease' (BBC News (BBC News, Apr. 17), Apr. 19)

Test May Determine Smokers' Lung Cancer Risk (NPR, Apr. 19)

Peoples & Culture

Name Not on Our List? Change It, China Says (N.Y. Times, Apr. 21) Site requires free registration

New Looks at the Fields of Death for Jews (N.Y. Times, Apr. 20) Site requires free registration

Aborigine, Inuit Tradition Can Fight Climate Change (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 20)

In Myanmar, Celebrating With Water, Letting Off Steam (N.Y. Times, Apr. 20) Site requires free registration

Natural Disasters & Weather

Mangroves Save Lives In Storms (TerraDaily/SPX, Apr. 20)

Tornado-Chasing Project Aims to Improve Forecasts (Washington Post, Apr. 20) Site requires free registration

NASA Experiment Stirs Up Hope For Forecasting Deadliest Cyclones (TerraDaily/SPX, Apr. 20)

Deadly quakes strike Afghanistan (BBC News, Apr. 17)

Asian nations unite to fight dust storms (Nature News, Apr. 17)

Climate change could worsen African "megadroughts" (ENN/Reuters, Apr. 17)

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

Holocaust Remembrance Day marked (BBC News, Apr. 21)

African Group Says Poor Need Help From Wealthy Nations (redOrbit, Apr. 21)

B-Schools: Make Climate Change Front and Center (Yahoo!/BusinessWeek, Apr. 21)

Readings show Four Corners marker off by 2.5 miles (San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 20)

'Green Nobel' for forest champion [Marc Ona Essangui of Gabon.] (BBC News, Apr. 19)

New limits to Antarctic tourism (BBC News, Apr. 18)

Plants & Animals

As Wild Horses Breed, a Voice for Contraception (N.Y. Times, Apr. 21) Site requires free registration

'Dancing' algae can waltz and minuet (New Scientist, Apr. 20)

Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests (PhysOrg, Apr. 20)

Saving the Galapagos means rebuilding nature (Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 19)

China to build new panda breeding center (Yahoo!/AP, Apr. 19)

Scorpion Biodiversity Seen In 'Evolution Canyon' (ScienceDaily, Apr. 18)

All Octopuses Are Venomous, Study Says (Nat'l. Geographic News, Apr. 17)

Microbes that 'breathe iron' are found in Antarctic (Independent UK, Apr. 17)

Science & Technology

Green and mean: The downside of clean energy (New Scientist, Apr. 21)

Aerodynamics on Land: Aiming for 800 M.P.H. (N.Y. Times, Apr. 21) Site requires free registration

Scientists develop method for verifying safety of computer-controlled devices (PhysOrg, Apr. 20)

Robot Sailing Boat Can Reach Any Given Destination Completely Autonomously (ScienceDaily, Apr. 19)

Space

Complex molecules seen in space (BBC News, Apr. 21)

Probe Continues On Spirit Reboots, Amnesia (redOrbit, Apr. 21)

Lightest exoplanet is discovered (BBC News, Apr. 21)

Rocky clues from dirty dead stars (BBC News, Apr. 20)

How To Deflect Asteroids And Save Earth (ScienceDaily, Apr. 20)

Spirit Is Ailing But Still Running [Mars.] (Washington Post, Apr. 20) Site requires free registration

Switch-on success for superscope (BBC News, Apr. 20)

Orion’s Belt Sees More Action Than We Knew [Stellar nursery.] (Universe Today, Apr. 19)

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