The National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 report maintained its grip as the top post last month (measured by unique pageviews). But it was also joined by new posts on natural resources, conflict, and development with a look at the UN’s “year of water cooperation,” East Africa’s coming natural gas boom, China’s massive west-east electricity transfer infrastructure, the relationship between oil and war, and the changing context of Nile basin negotiations. Chad Briggs also weighed in on the U.S. Air Force’s Minerva Project and how it’s helping the military plan for complex risks.

1. National Intelligence Council Releases ‘Global Trends 2030’: Prominent Roles Predicted for Demographic and Environmental Trends, Schuyler Null, Katharine Diamond

2. A Year for Cooperation, Not Conflict, Over Water, Katharine Diamond

3. Avoiding the Resource Curse in East Africa’s Oil and Natural Gas Boom, Jill Shankleman

4. Mapping China’s Massive West-East Electricity Transfer Project, David Tyler Gibson

5. When Does Oil Cause War? Petro-Aggression and Revolutionary Governments, Jeff Colgan

6. Nile Basin at a Turning Point as Political Changes Roil Balance of Power and Competing Demands Proliferate, Carolyn Lamere

7. Planning for Complex Risks: Environmental Change, Energy Security, and the Minerva Initiative, Chad M. Briggs

8. PRB’s 2012 World Population Data Sheet, Carolyn Lamere

9. Taming Hunger in Ethiopia: The Role of Population Dynamics, Laurie Mazur

10. Population and Sustainability in an Unequal World, Laurie Mazur