Archaeology & Paleontology

Should We Clone Neanderthals? (Archaeology, Mar./Apr.)

King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial, and Inbred, DNA Shows (National Geographic News, Feb. 16)

Buidling An Archaeological Time Machine (TerraDaily/SPX, Feb. 16)

Fossils 'record past sea changes' (BBC News, Feb. 15)

On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15) Site requires free registration

This King-Size Frog Hopped With Dinosaurs (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15) Site requires free registration

3,000-year-old shipwreck shows European trade was thriving in Bronze Age (Telegraph, Feb. 15)

Stonehenge "Hedge" Found, Shielded Secret Rituals? (National Geographic News, Feb. 11)

Ancient Greenland gene map has a surprise (Yahoo News/Reuters, Feb. 10)

Environment

Texas challenging EPA's greenhouse gas finding (Yahoo News/AP, Feb. 16)

Is the Copenhagen Accord already dead? (ENN/WBCSD, Feb. 16)

The Pacific Ocean's Garbage Patch needs more study (Washington Post/Slate, Feb. 16)

Giant Redwoods May Dry Out; Warming to Blame? (National Geographic News, Feb. 15)

'Climategate' scientist speaks out (Nature News, Feb. 15)

Get This: Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow (NPR, Feb. 15)

China takes stock of environment (Nature News, Feb. 12)

Exploration & Adventure

Calgary adventurer ready to set sail [Peddling across the Pacific] (CNEWS, Feb. 15)

Woman conquers Kilimanjaro in wheelchair (ThisDay, Feb. 15)

Medicine & Health

Hopes grow over potential autism treatment (Nature News, Feb. 16)

Study sheds light on 'teenage night owl syndrome' (L.A. Times, Feb. 15)

Wanted: Volunteers, All Pregnant [World's largest long-term study of health of children] (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15) Site requires free registration

As Girls Become Women, Sports Pay Dividends (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15) Site requires free registration

Scientists transplant nose of mosquito, advance fight against malaria (PhysOrg, Feb. 15)

Vancouver 2010 Games Spur Blood-Doping Fears (National Geographic News, Feb. 12)

Links to Spirituality Found in the Brain (LiveScience, Feb. 11)

Peoples & Culture

As Saudi Women Meet Clinton, No Talk of Rights (N.Y. Times, Feb. 16) Site requires free registration

New generation of men in India shaving off mustaches (Washington Post, Feb. 16) Site requires free registration

At Mekong's Source In China, Past And Present Collide (NPR, Feb. 15)

Azerbaijan mugham music makes revival (BBC News, Feb. 14)

Poll: Support For Extremism Falling In Muslim World (NPR, Feb. 14)

Saudi call for boycott against men selling lingerie (BBC News, Feb. 13)

Natural Disasters & Weather

Haiti Quake Damage Much Higher Than First Estimated (N.Y. Times, Feb. 16) Site requires free registration

Ten months on, Italian quake capital remains an 'empty city' (TerraDaily/AFP, Feb. 15)

Drilling may have caused Indonesia mud volcano (ENN/Reuters, Feb. 12)

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

Happiest States: Hawaii Moves into First Place (LiveScience, Feb. 16)

The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away [Sagar Island, India] (NPR, Feb. 15)

Baghdad Is Red, Clerics Are Blue: Valentine’s Back, Roses for You (N.Y. Times, Feb. 14) Site requires free registration

Vancouver 2010 to Be Warmest Winter Olympics Yet (National Geographic News, Feb. 12)

Trekking 1,000km in China for e-mail (BBC News, Feb. 11)

Plants & Animals

Buddy, Can You Spare a Banana? Study Finds That Bonobos Share Like Humans (ScienceDaily, Feb. 16)

Butterfly vision, wing colors linked: Ability to identify own species aided by ultraviolet pigment (PhysOrg, Feb. 16)

Heroic altruistic ants face death alone to save colony (BBC News, Feb. 15)

Imitators That Hide in Plain Sight, and Stay Alive (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15) Site requires free registration

First footage of new leopard species captured in Borneo (TerraDaily/AFP, Feb. 15)

Tigers evolved with snow leopards, gene study reveals (BBC News, Feb. 12)

Is That Elephant Running? Don't Bet on It (ScienceNOW, Feb. 12)

Science & Technology

The Physics of Figure Skating (LiveScience, Feb. 16)

New Transistors Mimic Human Brain's Synapses (LiveScience, Feb. 16)

In Brookhaven Collider, Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15) Site requires free registration

A Giant Leap for Humanoid Kind (Technology Review, Feb. 12)

Space

Space rock contains organic molecular feast (BBC News, Feb. 16)

Pluto, the red-faced demoted planet (Washington Post, Feb. 16) Site requires free registration

International Space Station gets new observation deck (BBC News, Feb. 15)

Adding Rocket Man to His Résumé [SpaceX vies for contract with NASA] (N.Y. Times, Feb. 15) Site requires free registration

Dunes On Mars: How Sand Shifts Without Wind (NPR, Feb. 13)

An Alien View Of Earth (NPR, Feb. 12)

SDO solar observatory launches from Cape Canaveral (BBC News, Feb. 11)

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