Archaeology & Paleontology

Can Evolution Run in Reverse? A Study Says It’s a One-Way Street (N.Y. Times, Sept. 29) Site requires free registration

China finds bird-like dinosaur with four wings (Yahoo!/Reuters, Sept. 28)

Climate-Change Study Cites Role of Ancient Farming (Washington Post, Sept. 28) Site requires free registration

Sex chromosomes linked to evolution of new species (Nature News, Sept. 27)

Archeologists find 'Joseph-era' coins in Egypt (The Jerusalem Post, Sept. 25)

Scandinavians Descended From Stone Age Immigrants (redOrbit, Sept. 25)

When Humans First Got Milk (Smithsonian, Sept. 25)

Rare coins find excites experts [Norman England.] (BBC News, Sept. 25)

Largest Anglo-Saxon Treasure Found (Nat'l. Geographic News, Sept. 24)

Environment

Kenya's heart stops pumping [Mau forest.] (BBC News, Sept. 29)

Four degrees of warming 'likely' (BBC News, Sept. 28)

Australia 'uranium' dust concerns (BBC News, Sept. 28)

Argentina’s Forests Suffer Nearly 70 Percent Loss (redOrbit, Sept. 28)

Climate Change Threatens Rare Species In Mekong: WWF (Planet Ark/Reuters, Sept. 28)

Population: Overconsumption is the real problem (New Scientist, Sept. 27)

Smuggling Europe’s Waste to Poorer Countries (N.Y. Times, Sept. 27) Site requires free registration

Ancient glaciers are disappearing faster than ever (Independent UK, Sept. 24)

Exploration & Adventure

Plastiki: Voyage of the century [David de Rothschild.] (San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 27)

Tom Holzel's latest on Mallory & Irvine: The final time line (MountEverest.net, Sept. 25)

Medicine & Health

Concepts are born in the hippocampus (New Scientist, Sept. 28)

Burst of Technology Helps Blind to See (N.Y. Times, Sept. 27)

The Age of Eco-Angst [Opinion column] (N.Y. Times, Sept. 27) Site requires free registration

C. diff rise due to 'gene switch' (BBC News, Sept. 27)

The Challenge of Making Real 'Surrogate' Skin (Yahoo!LiveScience, Sept. 26)

Vaccine protects against HIV virus (Nature News, Sept. 24)

Peoples & Culture

How Would Einstein Use E-mail? Letter Writers Of Yore Had Same Correspondence Patterns As E-mail Users Today (ScienceDaily, Sept. 28)

Nannies Get Holiday. Rich Families Get a Suite. [End of Ramadan in Indonesia.] (N.Y. Times, Sept. 28) Site requires free registration

Jewish Bluegrass (Smithsonian, Sept. 24)

Natural Disasters & Weather

23 dead as Typhoon Ketsana roars into Vietnam (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 29)

Sichuan quake 'was once-in-4,000-year event' (Yahoo!/AFP, Sept. 28)

Philippine floods test rescuers (BBC News, Sept. 28)

Heavier Rainstorms Ahead Due To Global Climate Change, Study Predicts (ScienceDaily, Sept. 27)

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

Companies desert the climate deniosphere (Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 28)

Better world: Global green heroes (New Scientist, Sept. 28)

The Renewable Dorm (N.Y. Times, Sept. 27) Site requires free registration

When Going Gets Tough, Local Currency Gets Going [Britain.] (Washington Post, Sept. 27)Site requires free registration

Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry (NPR, Sept. 27)

Iceland plans big whalemeat trade (BBC News, Sept. 25)

G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves (Grist, Sept. 25)

Serenading Science In A New Rock Album (NPR, Sept. 25)

Plants & Animals

Ten percent of world's major species 'at threat' (Yahoo/AFP, Sept. 29)

Giant fish 'verges on extinction' [giant Chinese paddlefish.] (BBC News, Sept. 29)

Is Ocean Seismic Testing Endangering the Dolphins? (TIME, Sept. 28)

850 Mostly Blind, Pale Creatures Discovered Underground (Yahoo!/LiveScience, Sept. 28)

Warmer weather threatens moose in Minnesota (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 28)

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 26)

Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 27)

Protection for sea birds extended [Scotland.] (BBC News, Sept. 26)

World’s first shark sanctuary set to open in Palau (Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 25)

Butterflies' migrational timekeeper found (Nature News, Sept. 24)

Science & Technology

Wanted: Home Computers to Join in Research on Artificial Life (N.Y. Times, Sept. 29) Site requires free registration Site requires free registration

Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents (N.Y. Times, Sept. 29) Site requires free registration

From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit (N.Y. Times, Sept. 29) Site requires free registration

LHC gets warning system upgrade (BBC News, Sept. 28)

Discovery Brings New Type Of Fast Computers Closer To Reality (ScienceDaily, Sept. 28)

International research team cracks potato genome (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 28)

High tech may pinpoint Antarctica sea rise risks (Yahoo!/Reuters, Sept. 27)

Prime Polluter China May Also Lead In Green Technology (NPR, Sept. 27)

Space

Red Planet May Be Better Known as the Wet One (N.Y. Times, Sept. 29) Site requires free registration

The discovery of new Earths is imminent, UD astronomer says (PhysOrg, Sept. 28)

Space Debris Gets Some Respect (SpaceMart/SPX, Sept. 28)

MESSENGER Spacecraft Prepares For Final Pass By Mercury (ScienceDaily, Sept. 28)

Plutonium Shortage Could Stall Space Exploration (NPR, Sept. 28)

Rare Space Object Discovered by High Schooler (Yahoo!/Space.com, Sept. 25)

A Prototype Detector for Dark Matter in the Milky Way (Universe Today, Sept. 25)

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