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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

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

Fragile states and food security top the Beat this month:

1. VIDEO—Harriet Birungi: Challenges Facing HIV-Positive Adolescents in Kenya

2. On the Beat: The Food Security Debate: From Malthus to Seinfeld

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

4. As Somalia Sinks, Neighbors Face a Fight to Stay Afloat

5. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment in Aynak

6. Feed the Future: USAID’s Shah Focuses on Women, Innovation, Integration

7. Eye on Environmental Security: USAID Launches GeoExplorer: Connecting Natural Resource Management Activities, Practitioners, and Communities

8. Guest Contributor: Todd Walters, International Peace Park Expeditions: Imagine There’s No Countries: Conservation Beyond Borders in the Balkans

9. DOD Measures Up On Climate Change, Energy

10. Campus Beat: Finding a Home for Political Demography

Peace parks remain at the top for two months in a row, but the rest of April’s faves includes new posts on population and climate change.

1. Guest Contributor Todd Walters, International Peace Park Expeditions: Imagine There’s No Countries: Conservation Beyond Borders in the Balkans

2. Climate Change and Energy in Defense Doctrine: The QDR and UK Defence Green Paper

3. Book Review: Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map by Cleo Paskal

4. Guest Contributor Rear Admiral Morisetti: Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security

5. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment in Aynak

6. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

7. Megatrends: Embracing Complexity in Today’s Population and Migration Challenges

8. VIDEO: Joshua Busby on Climate Change and African Political Stability

9. The Beat on the Ground: Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains — Cassie Gardener Reports on Integrating Population, Health, and Environment

10. Canada Flip-Flops on Family Planning; Will the G-8 Follow?

Spring brings a new crop of top posts, knocking video king Peter Gleick down a few notches:

1. Guest Contributor Todd Walters, International Peace Park Expeditions: Imagine There’s No Countries: Conservation Beyond Borders in the Balkans

2. Guest Contributor Rear Admiral Morisetti: Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security

3. A Forecast of Push and Pull: Climate Change and Global Migration

4. Guest Contributors Cleo Paskal and Scott Savit: How Copenhagen Has Changed Geopolitics: The Real Take-Home Message From Copenhagen is Not What You Think

5. Tapping In: Secretary Clinton on World Water Day

6. Healing the Rift: Mitigating Conflict Over Natural Resources in the Albertine Rift

7. Copper in Afghanistan: Chinese Investment in Aynak

8. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

9. Eye on Environmental Security: World Bank Data Visualization

10. Energy Is a “Constraint on Our Deployed Forces”: DOD DOEPP Nominee Sharon Burke

1. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

2. Can Haiti Change Course Before the Next Storm?

3. Guest Contributors Cleo Paskal and Scott Savit: How Copenhagen Has Changed Geopolitics: The Real Take-Home Message From Copenhagen Is Not What You Think

4. Hardship in Haiti: Family Planning and Poverty

5. Water, Conflict, and Cooperation: Practical Concerns for Water Development Projects

6. Collier and Birdsall: Plunder or Peace

7. VIDEO: UNEP’s David Jensen on Linking Environment, Conflict, and Peace in the United Nations

8. Gates: More Money for Global Health Is Good for the Environment

9. Lessons From the Field: Focusing on Environment, Health, and Development to Address Conflict

10. Land Grab: Sacrificing the Environment for Food Security