Archaeology & Paleontology

Real Tsunami May Have Inspired Legend of Atlantis (LiveScience, Oct. 9)

Paper Challenges Ideas About ‘Early Bird’ Dinosaur (N.Y. Times, Oct. 9)Site requires free registration

'First Bird' Not Very Bird-Like (LiveScience, Oct. 8)

Chinese fossil find gives clue to ear's evolution (YahooNews/AFP, Oct. 8)

Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods (Physorg.com, Oct. 8)

Trackway Analysis Shows How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes (ScienceDaily, Oct. 8)

Stolen artefacts return to Kabul(the Age, Oct. 8)

Dinosaur prints found in France (BBC News, Oct. 7)

The Fall Of The Maya (redOrbit, Oct. 7)

Rare Evidence Of Dinosaur Cannibalism: Meat-Eater Tooth Found In Gorgosaurus Jawbone (ScienceDaily, Oct. 7)

Egypt severs ties with Louvre over artifacts (AP, Oct. 7)

Environment

Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report (ScienceDaily, Oct. 9)

Staples And Home Depot Join Effort To Save U.S. Forests (PlanetArk, Oct. 9)

Sheep help retain farmhouse heat (BBC News, Oct. 9)

Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger (National Geographic News, Oct. 8)

Feeding The Earth In 2050 (redOrbit, Oct. 8)

Tropical Regions To Be Hardest Hit By Fisheries Shifts Caused By Climate Change (ScienceDaily, Oct. 8)

The Michigan Experiment: Rust Belt State Strives for a Green Makeover (PlanetArk, Oct. 8)

How cities drive plants extinct (BBC News, Oct. 8)

Do Dust Particles Curb Climate Change? (ScienceDaily, Oct. 7)

Loophole looms for illegal loggers ravaging Madagascar (WWF, Oct. 7)

Give forests back to local people to save them (New Scientist, Oct. 7)

Saving forests five times better than carbon capture for climate action (ENN, Oct. 7)

Exploration & Adventure

Taiwan, China to collaborate in Antarctic research (AFP, Oct. 8)

Search Begins for Last Lost Woman Pilot of WWII (ABC News, Oct. 8)

Plastic-Bottle Boat to Sail (National Geographic News, Oct. 7)

Expedition Kicks Off October 10, 2009 to Recover the First Plane to Land in Antarctica (Westside Today, Oct. 7)

Medicine & Health

New pattern in our biological clock overturns long-held theory (Physorg.com, Oct. 8)

Artificial skin can't fool the human touch (New Scientist, Oct. 8)

Areas Hit Hard by Flu in Spring See Little Now (N.Y. Times, Oct. 8)

Does Taste Decrease with Age? (LiveScience, Oct. 7)

Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zone (New Scientist, Oct. 7)

Peoples & Culture

One in four is Muslim, study says (BBC News, Oct. 8)

Taiwan aborigines pass on witchcraft tradition (BBC News, Oct. 8)

Group Resists Korean Stigma for Unwed Mothers (N.Y. Times, Oct. 7)Site requires free registration

Natural Disasters & Weather

Floundering El Ninos Make For Fickle Forecasts (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 9)

Scientists Measure Volcanic Magma's Rate Of Ascent (redOrbit, Oct. 8)

Landslides hit Himalayan states (BBC News, Oct. 8)

Typhoon lashes Japan on landfall (BBC News, Oct. 8)

Worst Volcanoes Even More Dangerous Than Feared (National Geographic News, Oct. 7)

Prayers for rain in Syria dust bowl (BBC News, Oct. 7)

Scorched earth: Wildfires will change the way we live (New Scientist, Oct. 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

Argentina's forests dwindle (naturenews, Oct. 9)

EU mayors look to Masdar as first zero-carbon city [UAE] (EurActiv.com, Oc. 8)

Australian continent to blame for Samoa, Sumatra quakes (Physorg.com, Oct. 8)

Huelva Swallowing Up Coastal Lagoons In Doñana (redOrbit, Oct. 8)

Earthquake preparation pays off for Indonesian village (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 8)

After Storms, Stagnant Floodwaters Bring Disease in Philippines (N.Y. Times, Oct. 7)Site requires free registration

Underground City Envisioned in Nevada (LiveScience, Oct. 7)

Vanishing Arctic Ice Shows No Sign Of Returning (PlanetArk, Oct. 7)

Plants & Animals

Feud over lions puts a nation's pride at stake (Indenpendent, Oct. 9)

Hunting Man-Eating Leopards, Earning Fanfare and Flak (Washington Post, Oct. 8)Site requires free registration

Scientists race to prevent ash tree's extinction (MSNBC, Oct, 8)

Alligators Display Mating Habits Of Birds (redOrbit, Oct. 8)

Monkey Moms Act Like Human Moms (LiveScience, Oct. 8)

Inferior males get lucky with the birds (New Scientist, Oct. 7)

Albatross cam for bird's eye view (BBC News, Oct. 7)

7 Preserves Envisioned to Manage Wild Horses (N.Y. Times, Oct. 7) Site requires free registration

Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska (YahooNews/AP, Oct. 7)

Baby Bats Imitate Dad's Songs (ScienceNOW, Oct. 7)

Science & Technology

Glacier technology feels the heat (BBC News, Oct. 9)

Quantum computing may actually be useful, after all (Physorg.com, Oct. 9)

Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever (Physorg.com, Oct. 8)

Solar Decathlon seeks best sun-powered homes (YahooNews/AFP, Oct. 8)

World-first Sustainable Racing Car Runs On Chocolate, To Take On Formula 3 (ScienceDaily, Oct. 8)

Bar Code: Its Origins, Why It's on Google & What's Next (National Geographic New, Oct. 7)

Solar-hydrogen house in Florida combines new, old (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 7)

Space

NASA probes give moon a double smack(YahooNews/AP, Oct. 9)

SpaceX One Step Closer To First Launch (redOrbit, Oct. 8)

New Saturn Ring Is Largest Known; May Solve Moon Puzzle (National Geographic New, Oct. 7)

Russia plots return to Venus (BBC News, Oct. 7)

Orbital Debris Cleanup Takes Center Stage (Space.com, Oct. 7)

Hellish Exoplanet Rains Hot Pebbles, Has Lava Oceans(National Geographic New, Oct. 6)

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