Eye On:
PRB’s 2012 World Population Data Sheet

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“The most rapid population growth in many ways [occurs in] the countries that can least afford it,” said Carl Haub in a webinar on July 19 t...

Iran’s Surprising and Shortsighted Shift on Family Planning
Elizabeth Leahy Madsen for the Wilson Center

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In late July, Iran’s government announced that it would no longer fund family planning programs, a dramatic reversal following 20 years of ...

PSA: We're Hiring Two Program Assistants!

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ECSP is seeking two Program Assistants to support event planning and outreach/communications on environmental, population, health, security,...

Reading Radar:
Three UN Millennium Development Targets Reached and a Review of the Human Drivers of Climate Change

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“It is plausible that key transitions in human evolutionary history have been driven in large part by climate change,” write Eugene A. Rosa ...

From the Wilson Center:
Is This What Climate Change Feels Like? Geoff Dabelko on ‘CONTEXT’

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“I think that the conditions that we’re experience now are ones that track with what we expect to see more of; so dry places getting drier, ...

Guest Contributor Jonathan Potton:
A Roundup of the ‘Global Trends 2030’ Series on Population Aging

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The National Intelligence Council is trying something new for this year’s Global Trends report: keeping a blog . So far, there have been po...

A World Without AIDS, Still Worlds Away
Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times

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The original version of this article, by Lawrence K. Altman, appeared on The New York Times. Is the world on the verge of ending the AIDS...

From the Wilson Center:
Emmanuel Karagiannis: Mediterranean Oil and Gas Discoveries Could Change Regional Alignments, Global Energy Equation

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“The discovery of gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean comes at a time when world demand for energy is growing rapidly and many are que...

On the Beat:
From Youth Bulge to Food and Family Planning, Los Angeles Times’ “Beyond 7 Billion” Series Synthesizes Population Challenges

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Over the next 40 years, the world is set to add 2.3 billion people . Millions more will join the middle class, pushing consumption upwards a...

Guest Contributor Richard Cincotta:
Population Aging: A Demographic and Geographic Overview

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The original version of this article, by Richard Cincotta, appeared on the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 Blog . It is ...

What You Are Reading:
Top 10 Posts for July 2012

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Kate Diamond’s look at Mongolia’s nexus of climate, development, and extractive industry issues ran away with the top spot last month (measu...

The Global Land Rush: Catalyst for Resource-Driven Conflict?
Michael Kugelman, Sustainable Security

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The original version of this article, by Michael Kugelman, appeared on SustainableSecurity.org . On May 11, the UN approved new internat...
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On the Beat:
PBS ‘NewsHour’ Reports on Reasons for Optimism Amid Niger’s Cyclical Food Crises

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Set in the middle of the arid region between the Sahara desert and the equatorial savannas of Africa known as the Sahel , Niger is no stran...

Reading Radar:
Chaotic Climate Change and Adaptation in Fragile States

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In “ Chaotic Climate Change and Security ,” published in the June issue of International Political Sociology, Maximilian Mayer traces the tr...

Eye On:
New USGS Report and Maps Highlight Afghanistan’s Mineral Potential, But Obstacles Remain

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Two maps released to the public for the first time this month illustrate the vast wealth of mineral deposits in the war-torn nation of Afgha...
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