December and January were busy months. The U.S. National Intelligence Council released their latest quadrennial Global Trends Report, we saw a progress report on USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative, and Typhoon Bopha showed why developing countries are so vulnerable to climate change. Laurie Mazur also responded to Blair A. Ruble’s Wilson Center policy brief on 21st century urbanization with a look at how sustainable cities really are, and we heard from Ethiopia’s PHE community about the challenges of project monitoring and evaluation. Some past-year favorites emerged again as well, with Yemen’s demography, a look at Mongolia’s mining boom, and a great map of the world’s exclusive economic zones.

1. National Intelligence Council Releases ‘Global Trends 2030’: Prominent Roles Predicted for Demographic and Environmental Trends, Schuyler Null, Katharine Diamond

2. Building Sustainable Cities in a Warmer, More Crowded World, Laurie Mazur

3. Super Typhoon Bopha Shows Why Developing Countries Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change, Carolyn Lamere

4. How Does Climate Change Figure Into the Feed the Future Initiative?, Kathleen Mogelgaard

5. Natural Resource Frontiers at Sea, Schuyler Null

6. Nile Basin at a Turning Point as Political Changes Roil Balance of Power and Competing Demands Proliferate, Carolyn Lamere

7. PHE Evaluation in Ethiopia Miniseries, Alexon Ayele, Laurel Hamilton, Kristen Stelljes

8. PRB’s 2012 World Population Data Sheet, Carolyn Lamere

9. In Mongolia, Climate Change and Mining Boom Threaten National Identity, Katharine Diamond

10. Yemen: Revisiting Demography After the Arab Spring, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen