Archaeology & Paleontology

200,000-year-old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen (ScienceDaily, Oct. 15)

Experts find rare Crusader-era murals in Syria (MSNBC, Oct. 15)

Pharaonic-Era Sacred Lake Unearthed in Egypt (ABC News, Oct. 15)

Giant Impact Near India -- Not Mexico -- May Have Doomed Dinosaurs (ScienceDaily, Oct. 15)

Birth of the Appalachians triggered mass extinction (New Scientist, Oct. 15)

Ancient Artisans' Footprints Discovered Beneath Lod Mosaic (Israel Natinal News, Oct. 14)

Huge dinosaur find in China 'may include new species' (YahooNews/AFP, Oct. 14)

Crushed Bones Reveal Literal Dino Stomping Ground (ScienceDaily, Oct. 14)

ODD NEW PTEROSAUR: "Darwin's Wing" Fills Evolution Gap (National Geographic News, Oct. 13)

World's Biggest Snake Lived in 1st "Modern" Rain Forest(National Geographic News, Oct. 13)

Environment

Getting Greener May Cost Us Less Than We Think (ENN, Oct. 15)

China's Acid Rain Control Strategy Offset By Increased Nitrogen Oxide Air Pollution (ScienceDaily, Oct. 15)

Arctic Has Potential To Alter Earth's Climate: Arctic Land And Seas Account For Up To 25 Percent Of World's Carbon Sink (ScienceDaily, Oct. 15)

Curbing Climate Change by Sealing Gas Leaks (N.Y. Times, Oct. 15)Site requires free registration

Banana marks seed bank milestone(BBC News, Oct. 15)

Cane Ethanol Helps Cut Greenhouse Emissions: Study (PlanetArk, Oct. 15)

Scots told 'go green for growth' (BBC News, Oct. 14)

Noise pollution threatens animals (BBC News, Oct. 14)

Sky Vegetables: Taking Green Roofs to New Heights (PlanetArk, Oct. 14)

Giant Invasive Snakes Threaten U.S. Ecosystems (LiveScience, Oct. 13)

Exploration & Adventure

Explorer Mike Horn to embark on mission to cover seven continents (Channel News Asia, Oct. 16)

Long Riders’ Guild: "we are determined to lead from the saddle” (thepoles.com, Oct. 15)

Primal Quest Expedition Adventure Race: The race of a lifetime (Contra Costa Times, Oct. 15)

Medicine & Health

Smoking Bans Reduce Heart Attacks and Disease (N.Y. Times, Oct. 16)Site requires free registration

Speed of Thought-to-Speech Traced in Brain (LiveScience, Oct. 15)

Scientists grow mice heart muscle strip that beats (Physorg.com, Oct. 15)

Modern man 'a wimp', says anthropologist (Independent, Oct. 14)

In Japan, cutting costs with seaweed and sit-ups (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 14)

Peoples & Culture

Technology Bringing Insight To Ancient Middle Eastern Language (redOrbit, Oct. 15)

African view: Insane with greed (BBC News, Oct. 14)

Stolen youth of SA's child brides (BBC News, Oct. 14)

Top Pakistan university to ban kissing (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 14)

Jail for Jordan 'honour killing' (BBC News, Oct. 12)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Stormier Arctic Predicted as Ice Melts (National Geographic News, Oct. 15)

Looking Behind The Scenes Of A Deadly Earthquake (redOrbit, Oct. 15)

Typhoons Hit Small Businesses in Philippines Hard (N.Y. Times, Oct. 15)Site requires free registration

Halo cloud over Moscow creates UFO buzz (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 14)

Tsunami drill across Indian Ocean (BBC News, Oct. 13)

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

An Isolated Village Finds the Energy to Keep Going(N.Y. Times, Oct. 16) Site requires free registration

Japan Rethinks a Dam, and a Town Protests (N.Y. Times, Oct. 16)Site requires free registration

Some Canadian rivers at risk of drying up (WWF, Oct. 15)

Crossroads of Islam, Past and Present (N.Y. Times, Oct. 15)Site requires free registration

Arctic to be 'ice-free in summer' (BBC News, Oct. 14)

US city to start giant 'mapathon' (BBC News, Oct. 14)

Richard Leakey: Passionate, prickly and principled (New Scientist, Oct. 14)

Japan's new hi-tech 'graveyards' (BBC News, Oct. 13)

Whatever Happened to Greensburg, Kansas? (Our Planet, Oct. 11)

Plants & Animals

Monkey Drumming Suggests the Origin of Music (LiveScience, Oct. 16)

Barnacles' sticky secret revealed (BBC News, Oct. 16)

Alligators Surprisingly Monogamous, Study Finds (LiveScience, Oct. 15)

Plants Recognize Siblings: ID System In Roots (ScienceDaily, Oct. 15)

Bird species 'sharing nest boxes' (BBC News, Oct. 15)

Dolphin football off north coast (BBC News, Oct. 15)

Massive killer whale pod sighted(BBC News, Oct. 15)

Swine Flu in Swine: Flu Could Worsen; Industry at Risk (National Geographic News, Oct. 14)

Rare Frog Species Hit Hardest by Deadly Fungus (LiveScience, Oct. 13)

Saving the Last Lions (Washington Post, Oct. 13)Site requires free registration

Science & Technology

Tiniest Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction Of Melting Materials At Nano Scale (ScienceDaily, Oct. 16)

Newfangled Pogo Stick Soars 9 Feet (LiveScience, Oct. 15)

Military Fuel-Cell Aircraft Sets Record (LiveScience, Oct. 14)

'Magnetic electricity' discovered (BBC News, Oct. 14)

Clever New Fan Has No Blades (LiveScience, Oct. 13)

Space

The moon belongs to no one – yet (New Scientist, Oct. 16)

Mystery Emissions Spotted at Edge of Solar System (Space.com, Oct. 15)

How the Moon produces its own water (Physorg.com, Oct. 15)

First black hole for light created on Earth (New Scientist, Oct. 14)

NASA invites Twitterers to next shuttle launch (YahooNews/AP, Oct. 14)

Milky Way's Tiny But Tough Galactic Neighbor (ScienceDaily, Oct. 140

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