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• Major offshore quake could surge inland to Seattle area • Permafrost thaw may accelerate Arctic groundwater runoff • Major Australian droughts traced to different causes • How the Moon gets its exosphere • Saturn’s auroral hiss is asymmetrical • Northern South America rainier during Little Ice Age • Continental roots stress Earth’s surface • Window opens into Moon’s past volcanism • Explaining plasma motion around Saturn • Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide increasing? Anyone may read the scientific abstract for any of these papers by clicking on the link provided at the end of each Highlight. You can also read the abstract by going to http://www.agu.org/pubs/search_options.shtml and inserting into the search engine the full doi (digital object identifier), e.g. 10.1029/2009GL040613. The doi is found at the end of each Highlight below. Journalists and public information officers (PIOs) at educational or scientific institutions, who are registered with AGU, also