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Table of Contents

• Editorial
• Articles
  • Scorching the soil – 5
  • Why virgin forests are not erosion-free – 6
  • Ink-redible insight – 7
  • Interview with Millie Basava-Reddi of the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme at EGU 2012 – 9
• EGU Voice
  • Letter from the General Assembly Programme Committee Chair – 11
  • Division reports – 12
• EGU News
  • EGU awards and medals – 15
  • Research on Flood Resilience and Europe: achievements and future – 17
  • Short report on 2012 General Assembly Press Centre activities – 18
  • EGU 2012 Photo Competition winners – 19
  • Join the EGU Blog Network! – 20
  • International Innovation interview: EGU Executive Secretary – 21
• Press Release
  • Geoengineering could disrupt rainfall patterns – 23
• Journal Watch
  • A tsunami wave recorded near a glacier front – 24
  • Drivers of flood risk change in residential areas – 24
  • Photo-lability of deep ocean dissolved black carbon – 25
  • Global characteristics of the lunar tidal modulation of the equatorial electrojet derived from CHAMP observations – 25
  • On the role of ozone in long-term trends in the upper atmosphere-ionosphere system – 26
  • The regulation of the air: a hypothesis – 26
  • Evidence of a possible turning point in solar UV-B over Canada, Europe and Japan – 26
  • Estimating the climate significance of halogen-driven ozone loss in the tropical marine troposphere – 27
  • Revisiting Narrow Bipolar Event intracloud lightning using the FORTE satellite – 27
• External News
  • ESA declares end of mission for Envisat – 28
  • Study of Patagonian glacier’s rise and fall adds to understanding of global climate change – 29
  • Taming uncertainty in climate prediction – 30
  • ‘Warming hole’ delayed climate change over eastern United States – 31
  • Cassini sees objects blazing trails in Saturn ring – 32
• Education
  • Report on the 2012 editon of GIFT – 33
• Books
  • Continuum Mechanics in the Earth Sciences – 34
  • Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains – 34
  • Tsunamis in the World Ocean: Past, Present and Future, Volume II – 35
  • Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate – 35
  • Book review: The Ecology of Snow and Ice Environments – 36
• On the Web
  • Featured website: Climate Communication – 37
  • Social media: Who’s following the EGU? – 37
• Events
  • Conferences, meetings and workshops – 38