1. The Campus Beat: Using Blogs, Facebook, to Teach Environmental Security at West Point

2. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

3. Guest Contributor James R. Fleming: Climate Engineering Is Untested and Dangerous

4. Guest Contributor Elizabeth Leahy Madsen: Pakistan’s Demographic Challenge Is Not Just Economic

5. Columbia University’s Marc Levy on Mapping Population and Geographic Data

6. Prostitution, Agriculture, Development Fuel Human Trafficking in Brazil

7. Reporting From Kenya: U.S. Editors Cover Health, Environment, and Security

8. Ethiopia: A Holistic Approach to Community Development Blossoms Two Years After Taking Root

9. On the Beat: Climate-Security Gets “To the Point” Today

10. Covering Climate: What’s Population Got to Do With It?

From climate change to coltan, poverty to population, and water to war: These are the 10 most popular New Security Beat stories of the year. Thanks for your clicks, and we’ll see you in 2009!

1. Desertification Threatening China’s Human, Economic Health

2. PODCAST – Climate Change and National Security: A Discussion with Joshua Busby, Part 1

3. In the Philippines, High Birth Rates, Pervasive Poverty Are Linked

4. Climate Change Threatens Middle East, Warns Report

5. Population, Health, Environment in Ethiopia: “Now I know my family is too big”

6. Guest Contributor Colin Kahl on Kenya’s Ethnic Land Strife

7. Coltan, Cell Phones, and Conflict: The War Economy of the DRC

8. “Bahala na”? Population Growth Brings Water Crisis to the Philippines

9. Population Reference Bureau Releases 2008 World Population Data Sheet

10. Guest Contributor Sharon Burke on Climate Change and Security