What’s been on The Great Beyond this week, plus a few extras…

Monday June 30

Chinese tiger photo was faked / US pays $5.8 million in anthrax lawsuit / Whaling meeting grumbles to a close / An ice free North Pole?

Tuesday July 0

‘Science is harder than English’ / Germany sinks carbon dioxide / Sucks to be you, Furcifer labordi / Farewell to the Vachibou

Wednesday July 02

Jealous Mars spacecraft raises game / Toxic ship sails for UK / ‘Canary’ penguins herald ocean doom / It’s a coal world

Thursday July 03

The Chemical Element Elephant / Endangered animals: it’s worse than we thought / Science sounds round up / News-weak: Darwin vs Lincoln

Friday July 04

More natural woes plague China Olympics / Mercury needs re-branding / It is interesting to contemplate a tangled beard / Creationist email row goes to court

Other Nature blog posts you may have missed

Climate Feedback: One earth, one US agency

Nascent: Science Blogging 2008: London

Peer-to-Peer: Trustworthiness of online encyclopaedias

Ones that got away

NASA to bin ‘historic bricks’, from Discovery

A Caltech mystery, from the LA Times

The 60s come to an end for US academia, from the NY Times

Next week: the Climate Feedback blog is at the G8 summit in Hokkaido.