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		The Colors of Fall: Are Autumn Reds and Golds Passing Us By? Climate change, land-use change, introduced pests and diseases altering fall foliage Released  September 25, 2012
		Tropical Reefs Surviving Environmental Stresses: Corals' Choice of Symbiotic Algae May Hold the Key Corals that host fewer species of algae are less sensitive to disturbances Released  August 29, 2012
		From Lake to Land, in a Land of Lakes Moose act as conduits of nitrogen between water bodies and the edges of lakes, ponds Released  August 17, 2012
		A Tree Stands in the Sierra Nevada A coniferous view of the link between snowmelt and water supplies in the U.S. West Released  August 7, 2012
		Into the Matorral: Scientists Track Avifauna in Coastal Chile's Thorn-Scrub Researchers discover ecological role of bird life in a biodiversity hotspot Released  July 26, 2012
		Acid Rain: Scourge of the Past or Trend of the Present? New connection between climate change and acidification of Northeast's forests and streams Released  July 25, 2012
		Where North Meets South in the Sea Small fish adapt to cold, warm water temperatures along 2,000 miles of Atlantic Coast Released  July 24, 2012
		All Washed Up and Somewhere to Go Seaweed on beaches is an ecological treasure trove Released  July 20, 2012
		Tiny Firefly Satellite Set To Flash Straight Into Lightning and Thunderstorms CubeSat will help solve mysteries of terrestrial gamma ray flashes, 1,000 times more powerful than northern lights Released  July 19, 2012
		It's Wildflower Season on Mountain Peaks, But Alpine Plants May Soon Miss the Date Study conducted over 38 years shows one species' timing has shifted by 13 days Released  July 11, 2012
		Hitchhiker's Guide to The Deep Creatures of the abyss invade surface world Released  June 8, 2012
		Queen of Spades Key to New Evolutionary Hypothesis Microscopic ocean plankton mimic card also known as the Black Queen Released  May 10, 2012
		Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Develop New Model for Deep-water Oil Spills Call for a "whole new type" of marine ecology Released  April 20, 2012
		Novel Answer to That Perennial "Earth Day" Question: "What Can I Do to Help?" Groups of citizen scientists are making pivotal contributions to research on the Earth, its place in the universe and other natural phenomena Released  April 19, 2012
		Earth Week: A Stream Is a Stream Is a Stream: Or Is It? Scientists ford high-mountain waterways in North, South America to find out Released  April 16, 2012
		Long-term Ecological Research Reveals Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change New insights as NSF Long Term Ecological Research Network reflects on three decades of science Released  April 6, 2012
		Cry Me a River: Following a Watershed's Winding Path to Sustainability National Science Foundation "Water, Sustainability and Climate" award fosters new view of urban rivers, lakes Released  March 9, 2012
		The Snows of Mount Washington Climate and environmental change in the U.S. northeast corridor Released  March 2, 2012
		Studying Nature's Rhythms: Soundscape Ecologists Spawn New Field Listen to biophony, geophony, anthrophony: the 'music' of Planet Earth Released  February 6, 2012
		Making Nature's Best Better to Produce Biofuels The National Renewable Energy Laboratory uses supercomputer simulations to explore designer enzymes for renewable fuels Released  January 31, 2012
		Biodiversity of Earth's Richest Plant Kingdom Under Fire In response to climate change, will a postage-sized-domain move uphill--and ultimately out of room? Released  January 27, 2012
		By the Light of January's Wolf Moon On the hunt, is bigger better for predators like wolves? Released  January 10, 2012
		Out of Africa and Into the American Midwest Last of the oak savannas survives at NSF Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research site Released  January 6, 2012
		Trouble in Paradise: Ocean Acidification This Way Comes Sustainability of tropical corals in question, but some species developing survival mechanisms Released  January 4, 2012
		Can Marcellus Shale Gas Development and Healthy Waterways Sustainably Coexist? National Science Foundation Sustainability Research Coordination Network is Providing Answers Released  December 9, 2011
		Seeing the Forest Under the Trees New Effect of Acid Rain on Forests: Too Many Dead Leaves a Bad Sign for Sugar Maples Released  December 7, 2011
		Dashing Through the Snow, in a One-truck Radar Dish Scientists study mountain west snowstorms through the eye of the Doppler-on-Wheels Released  December 6, 2011
		New Forecasting Algorithm Helps Predict Hurricane Intensity and Wind Speed The Prediction Intensity Interval model for Hurricanes (PIIH) algorithm seeks to mitigate damage by the "evil god of winds and destruction" Released  December 5, 2011
		A HIPPO Takes to the Skies to Taste Earth's Atmosphere The HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observation (HIPPO) project generated an extraordinarily detailed mapping of the global distribution of greenhouse gases, black carbon and related chemical species in the atmosphere Released  October 25, 2011
		The Earth Exploration Toolbook Wins SPORE Award Online resource for teachers and students provides data and data analysis tools related to the Earth sciences Released  October 3, 2011