Women Deliver and conflict minerals top the Beat this month:

1. Dot Mom: Women Deliver in Climate Change Debate

2. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investments in Aynak

3. Rare Earth: A New Roadblock for Sustainable Energy?

4. Guest Contributor Caitlyn L Antrim, Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans: Trillions of Dollars of Minerals? Misuing Geology and Economics to the Detriment of Policy

5. Guest Contributor Michael Kugelman, Wilson Center: Look Beyond Islamabad To Solve Pakistan’s “Other” Threats

6. Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Gold Mine, Curse, or Illusion?

7. Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Mitigation

8. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

9. The Plundered Planet: A Discussion With Paul Collier

10. Eye on Environmental Security: Natural Resource Frontiers at Sea