The new conflict minerals law, Yemen, and the “4 Degree” map top the list this month:

1. DRC’s Conflict Minerals: Can U.S. Law Impact the Violence?

2. Demographics, Depleted Resources, and Al Qaeda Inflame Tensions in Yemen

3. Eye on Environmental Security: Guest Contributor Rear Admiral Morisetti Launches the UK’s “4 Degree Map” on Google Earth

4. Time to Give a Dam: Alternative Energy as Source of Cooperation or Conflict?

5. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment In Aynak

6. India’s Maoists: South Asia’s “Other” Insurgency

7. A Backdraft Video: Stacy VanDeveer: Will Using Less Oil Affect Petro State Stability?

8. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

9. Is the Third Pole the Next Site for Water Crisis?

10. Interview: Educate Girls, Boys, To Meet the Population Challenge, Say Pakistan’s Leading Demographers