Pop Audios from Roger-Mark De Souza and John Bongaarts, water conflict on the Mekong river, a take on Restrepo from one of this summer’s West Pointers, and demographic security on the Hill topped the list last month:

1. Pop Audio: From Cancun: Roger-Mark De Souza on Women and Integrated Climate Adaptation Strategies

2. Managing the Mekong: Conflict or Compromise?

3. Pop Audio: John Bongaarts on the Impacts of Demographic Change in the Developing World

4. Restrepo: Inside Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley

5. Demographic Security Comes to the Hill

6. The Future of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Tentative Fertility Decline

7. On the Beat: Where Have all the Malthusians Gone?

8. Bringing Cambodia Back from the Brink: Audio Interview with Suwanna Gauntlett

9. COP-16 Cancun Coverage Wrap-up: An Integrated Climate Dialogue

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

Matthew Erdman’s report on PHE programing in Madagascar, Jennifer Sciubba’s response to the “aging” media blitz, a series on Nigeria’s cloudy future, and John Bongaart’s Pop Audio topped the list last month:

1. The Beat on the Ground: Toliara, Madagascar
Matthew Erdman Reports on Blue Ventures’ Integrated PHE Initiative

2. On the Beat: Where Have all the Malthusians Gone?

3. Nigeria’s Future Clouded by Oil, Climate Change, and Scarcity: Part One, The Delta

4. Pop Audio: John Bongaarts on the Impacts of Demographic Change in the Developing World

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

6. Guest Contributor Kavita Ramdas: What’s Good for Women Is Good for the Planet

7. Restrepo: Inside Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley

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

9. Nigeria’s Future Clouded by Oil, Climate Change, and Scarcity: Part Two, The Sahel

10. The Ultimate Weapon Is No Weapon: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

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Nathan Yaffe and Laura Dismore’s post on a Ethiopian land-grab case study, Marc Levy’s response to Halvard Buhaug, and India and China’s thirst for resources topped the list last month:

1. The Beat on the Ground: Ethiopian Case Study Illustrates Shortcomings of “Land Grab” Debate

2. On the Beat: Climate-Security Linkages Lost in Translation

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

4. U.S. v. China: The Global Battle for Hearts, Minds, and Resources

5. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

6. Brian O’Neill: Population Is Neither a Silver Bullet Nor a Red Herring in Climate Problem

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

8. On the Beat: New Study Finds Lower Population Growth Could Cut Carbon Emissions, Lead Author Presents at SEJ 2010

9. Latin America’s Future: Emerging Trends in Economic Growth and Environmental Protection

10. Welcome Back, Roger-Mark: A Powerful Voice Returns to PHE

Marc Levy’s response to Halvard Buhaug’s paper on climate-security linkages, a critique of the World Bank’s latest report on land grabs, and resource conflicts top the list this month:

1. On the Beat: Climate-Security Linkages Lost in Translation

2. New World Bank Report on Land Grabs Is a Dud

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

4. U.S. v. China: The Global Battle for Hearts, Minds, and Resources

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

6. Historic Floods Plague Pakistan

7. Iraq at the Crossroads: Water, Power, Trash, and Security: Interview with Iraq’s First Minister of the Environment Mishkat Al Moumin

8. UK Royal Society: Call for Submissions “People and the Planet” Study To Examine Population, Environment, Development Links

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

10. Guest Contributor Serge Dedina: Environmental Security Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

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The Royal Society’s call for submissions, USAID’s summer seminar series, and coverage of Pakistan’s historic floods top the list this month:

1. UK Royal Society: Call for Submissions “People and the Planet” Study To Examine Population, Environment, Development Links

2. “There is no choice”: Climate, Health, Water, Food Security Must Be Integrated, Say Experts

3. Historic Floods Plague Pakistan

4. Restrepo: Inside Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley

5. Seven Billion and Counting: Population Reference Bureau Releases New Projections

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

7. Interview with Maria Ivanova, Wilson Center Scholar: Engaging Civil Society in Global Environmental Governance

8. Eye on Environmental Security: Floods, Fire, Landslides, and Drought: The Guardian’s “Weather Crisis 2010”

9. Guest Contributor Jennifer Sciubba, Mellon Environmental Fellow at Rhodes College: Misguided Projections for Africa’s Fertility

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

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