Archaeology & Paleontology

Mayans 'played' pyramids to make music for rain god (New Scientist, Sept. 22)

Archeologists uncover ancient royal burial chamber (Deutsche Welle, Sept. 21)

Exact Date Pinned to Great Pyramid's Construction? (National Geographic News, Sept. 21)

Even Ancient Trilobites Were Social (LiveScience, Sept. 21)

Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals (Physorg.com, Sept. 19)

Mysterious ruins may help explain Mayan collapse (USA Today, Sept. 19)

"Unexpected" Man Found Amid Ancient Priestesses' Tombs (National Geographic News, Sept. 18)

Environment

Keeping An Eye On The Oceans (ScienceDaily, Sept. 22)

Bid to jump-start climate talks (BBC News, Sept. 22)

Why Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe (LiveScience, Sept. 22)

Fair carbon means no carbon for rich countries (New Scientist, Sept. 21)

Environmental Groups To Use Web To Save Rainforest (PlanetArk, Sept. 21)

Global Downturn Has Created Drop In Carbon Emissions (redOrbit, Sept. 21)

Firms Start to See Climate Change as Barrier to Profit (Washington Post, Sept. 21)Site requires free registration

Climate deal in peril, says Brown (BBC News, Sept. 21)

Farm-Fresh Fish -- With a Catch (Washington Post, Sept. 20)Site requires free registration

Weed Heroes: The War on the Invader Cogongrass (N.Y. Times, Sept. 20)Site requires free registration

Exploration & Adventure

Himalaya wrap-up: Satopanth summits, Himalaya climbers reporting on trash (mounteverest.net, Sept. 21)

David Hempleman-Adams breaks two world balloon records in US flight (Times online, Sept. 21)

Arctic trail blazers make history (BBC News, Sept. 19)

Medicine & Health

Naked mole rats may help cure cancer (New Scientist, Sept. 22)

China: Swine Flu Campaign, First in World, Begins in Beijing(N.Y. Times, Sept. 22)Site requires free registration

To Explain Longevity Gap, Look Past Health System (N.Y. Times, Sept. 22)Site requires free registration

Mosquito-Borne African Virus A New Threat To West (PlanetArk, Sept. 21)

Spinal advance gets rats running (BBC News, Sept. 20)

Peoples & Culture

Seeking Purification at Russia’s Melon Stands (N.Y. Times, Sept. 22)Site requires free registration

A Doctor for Disease, a Shaman for the Soul (N.Y. Times, Sept. 19)Site requires free registration

Finding Humor In Postwar Woes (Washington Post, Sept. 19)Site requires free registration

Natural Disasters & Weather

Deadly Flooding Rakes Communities Across Southeast (npr, Sept. 22)

Supervolcano 'Rosetta Stone’ Discovered In Italian Alps (redOrbit, Sept. 21)

Bhutan hit by strong earthquake (BBC News, Sept. 21)

'Millions at risk' as deltas sink (BBC News, Sept. 21)

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

Flamingo paradise becomes largest Andean Ramsar wetland (WWF, Sept. 22)

Lawrence B. Slobodkin, Pioneering Ecologist, Dies at 81 (N.Y. Times, Sept. 22)Site requires free registration

Arctic Ice Melts To Third-Smallest Area On Record (PlanetArk, Sept. 21)

One-in-four Japan women 'elderly' (BBC News, Sept. 21)

Cuba rocks to huge peace concert (BBC News, Sept. 21)

Islands warn of extinction at UN climate week (TerraDaily/AFP, Sept. 21)

Billion-Dollar Floodgates Might Not Save Venice (npr, Sept. 20)

Quiet Goodwill In a Homeland The Writer Knows Too Well (Washington Post, Sept. 20)Site requires free registration

Meeting India's tree planting guru (BBC News, Sept. 19)

Tuna Town in Japan Sees Falloff of Its Fish (N.Y. Times, Sept. 19)Site requires free registration

Rare glimpse inside hidden Turkmenistan (BBC News, Sept. 19)

Plants & Animals

Wing Design Is Behind Added Lift for Locusts (N.Y. Times, Sept. 22)Site requires free registration

Bizarre New Fish Discovered (National Geographic News, Sept. 21)

Pandas to return to Wolong reserve in 2012 (MSNBC, Sept. 21)

Fed judge says grizzlies still threatened (YahooNews/AP, Sept. 21)

U.S. scientists net giant squid in Gulf of Mexico (YahooNews/Reuters, Sept. 21)

Why Odd Egg-Laying Mammals Still Exist(LiveScience, Sept. 21)

New Worm Species Discovered on Dead Whales (LiveScience, Sept. 21)

'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida (Physorg.com, Sept. 21)

Rare bat rewrites record books (BBC News, Sept. 20)

Elephants, Other Iconic Animals Dying in Kenya Drought (National Geographic News, Sept. 21)

India plans return of the cheetah (BBC News, Sept. 20)

Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs (N.Y. Times, Sept. 19)

Squirrel seen savaging fruit bat (BBC News, Sept. 18)

Science & Technology

Silicon Valley Reinvents The Lowly Brick (PlanetArk, Sept. 22)

When You Could Fling a Frisbee from Canada to Zimbabwe (LiveScience, Sept. 21)

Robot Hops to Military Duty(LiveScience, Sept. 21)

Human Pee With Ash Is a Natural Fertilizer, Study Says (National Geographic News, Sept. 18)

Space

An Odyssey From the Bronx to Saturn’s Rings (N.Y. Times, Sept. 22)

Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth (CNN, Sept. 21)

How Mars Turned Red: Surprising New Theory (LiveScience, Sept. 21)

Surprising, Huge Peaks Discovered in Saturn's Rings (Space.com, Sept. 21)

Artificial cloud created at the edge of space (New Scientist, Sept. 21)

New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered Around Saturn (ScienceDaily, Sept. 21)

Space shuttle Discovery back home in Florida (YahooNews/AP, Sept. 21)

Rare Meteorite Found Using New Camera Network In Australian Desert (ScienceDaily, Sept. 20)

Moon Craters Could Be Coldest Place in Solar System (Space.com, Sept. 18)

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