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

1. VIDEO: Peter Gleick on Peak Water

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

3. Video: Malcolm Potts on Sex and War

4. New UNEP Report Explores Environment’s Links to Conflict, Peacebuilding

5. PODCAST – A Discussion on Climate Change and Security: Arctic Links and U.S. Intelligence Community Responses

6. East Africa Population-Health-Environment Conference Kicks Off in Kigali

7. Food, Water, Energy, Timber, Population: Do Madagascar’s Forests Stand a Chance?

8. Guest Contributor Tod Preston on Pakistan’s Daunting—and Deteriorating—Demographic Challenge

9. VIDEO: Kent Butts on Climate Change, Security, and the U.S. Military

10. Water a National Security Issue, Says Senator Richard Durbin

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

From Haiti to Sudan, countries in crises often share the problems of rapid population growth and deteriorating environmental resources.

To promote dialogue on the links connecting population, environment, and conflict, the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center launched this blog as a clearinghouse for information and insight on today’s new security threats.