Archaeology & Paleontology

Dinosaur extinction link to crater confirmed (BBC News, Mar. 4)

Tiny Shelled Creatures Shed Light On Recovery 65 Million Years Ago (Terra Daily, Mar. 4)

Dinosaur's oldest relative found (BBC News, Mar. 4)

Sudan's land of 'black pharaohs' a trove for archaeologists (Expatica France, Mar. 3)

Spell-covered burial chamber found in Egypt's Saqqara (Reuters, Mar. 3)

'Missing Link' Fossil Was Not Human Ancestor as Claimed, Anthropologists Say (Science Daily, Mar. 3)

Environment

Waste Could Generate Up to 7 Percent of Electricity in Spain (Science Daily, Mar. 5)

Dirty Air in California Causes Millions Worth of Medical Care Each Year, Study Finds (Science Daily, Mar. 5)

Climate change human link evidence 'stronger' (BBC News, Mar. 5)

Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way (N.Y. Times, Mar. 4) Site requires free registration

American pika are thriving in the Sierra Nevada and southwestern Great Basin (PhysOrg.com, Mar. 4)

Plea for whaling compromise as rivals meet (Yahoo!/AFP, Mar. 3)

Mass Loss from Alaskan Glaciers Overestimated? Previous Melt Contributed a Third Less to Sea-Level Rise Than Estimated (Science Daily, Mar. 3)

Exploration & Adventure

China forces Edurne Pasaban to change plans: team off to Annapurna, then Shisha (Explorersweb, Mar. 4)

Arctic trekkers head north again (BBC News, Mar. 3)

Essendon pair retrace 1860 trek (Moonee Valley Leader, Mar. 3)

Medicine & Health

Products Recalled Over Salmonella (Wall Street Journal, Mar. 5)

Newly Engineered Enzyme Is a Powerful Staph Antibiotic (Science Daily, Mar. 5)

How Trauma Leads to Inflammatory Response: Mitochondria May Be at Root of Dangerous Complications from Injury (Science Daily, Mar. 4)

Hand-held device on trial for migraine sufferers (BBC News, Mar. 4)

What's Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains? (National Geographic News, Mar. 3)

Sea Squirt Offers Hope for Alzheimer's Sufferers (Science Daily, Mar. 3)

Peoples & Culture

Study: Happiness Is Experiences, Not Stuff (LiveScience, Mar. 5)

Women More Affected Than Men by Air Pollution When Running Marathons (Science Daily, Mar. 5)

Intelligent People Have Novel Preferences (Terra Daily, Mar. 4)

Anti-Drinking Ads Induce More Drinking in Some People (LiveScience, Mar. 3)

Post-Disaster Looting: Loose Morals or Survival Instincts? (LiveScience, Mar. 3)

Fake Weed, Real Drug: K2 Causing Hallucinations in Teens (LiveScience, Mar. 3)

Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets (N.Y. Times, Mar. 3) Site requires free registration

Natural Disasters & Weather

Powerful quake strikes southern Taiwan (Yahoo!/AFP, Mar. 4)

Tides And Earth Rotation Key To Giant Underwater Waves (Terra Daily, Mar. 4)

Hurricanes' effects on ocean temperature revisited (PhysOrg.com. Mar. 4)

Shifting Soil Threatens Homes’ Foundations (N.Y. Times, Mar. 3) Site requires free registration

Hopes fade for Uganda landslide survivors: officials (Terra Daily, Mar. 3)

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

Chile Quake Occurred In Zone Of Increased Stress (Terra Daily, Mar. 4)

Most sea lions gone from Ore. coast (Yahoo!/AP, Mar. 4)

Hydrothermal Vents Discovered Off Antarctica (Science Daily, Mar. 4)

Spanish hotels under attack from bed bugs (Terra Daily, Mar. 3)

Hundreds flee in false tsunami alert as toll climbs (Terra Daily, Mar. 3)

Plants & Animals

Deep sea fish 'eat their greens' (BBC News, Mar. 4)

Why Do Lizards Have Ears? To Eavesdrop, Perhaps (N.Y. Times, Mar. 4) Site requires free registration

A Magnetometer In The Upper Beak Of Birds (Terra Daily, Mar. 4)

Scientists Report Octopus Imitating Flounder in the Atlantic (Science Daily, Mar. 4)

Female dung beetles use horns to fight over manure (PhysOrg.com, Mar. 4)

Human gut microbes hold 'second genome' (BBC News, Mar. 3)

The Real Reason We Dress Pets Like People (LiveScience, Mar. 3)

Canine Morphology: Hunting for Genes and Tracking Mutations (Science Daily, Mar. 3)

Pigeons Beat Humans at Solving 'Monty Hall' Problem (LiveScience, Mar. 3)

Baby Monkeys Receive Signals Through Their Mother's Breast Milk That Affect Behavior and Temperament (Science Daily, Mar. 3)

Science & Technology

3D graphics, reality fuse on the fly (PhysOrg.com, Mar. 4)

New device may enable limbs to be controlled by thought alone (PhysOrg.com, Mar. 4)

Nano-foundry technique yields ultra-durable probes from diamond (PhysOrg.com, Mar. 3)

Army Turns to Smartphone 'Apps' to Win Wars (LiveScience, Mar. 3)

LHC Restarted: Half-Power Run Is Full of Potential (National Geographic News, Mar. 3)

Artificial Bee Silk a Big Step Closer to Reality (Science Daily, Mar. 3)

Space

NASA Launches New High-Tech Weather Satellite (Yahoo!/AP, Mar. 5)

Precursors of Life-Enabling Organic Molecules in Orion Nebula Unveiled by Herschel Space Observatory (Science Daily, Mar. 5)

Mysterious "Dragons" Make Universe's Gamma Ray Fog (National Geographic News, Mar. 3)

Clues to Antarctica space blast (BBC News, Mar. 3)

Volunteer army catches interstellar dust grains (Nature News, Mar. 3)

'Cosmic Bat': Island of Stars in the Making on Outskirts of Orion (Science Daily, Mar. 3)

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