Wildlife trafficking has exploded in recent years and now contributes significant funds to major criminal organizations and even terrorism. That puts it squarely in the realm of national security, according to a research project by the University of Texas, Austin. Cameron Lagrone and Josh Busby explain the connection in last month’s most popular post.

Joining them were the launch of two major ECSP initiatives: a report for the G7 governments on climate-fragility risks and steps to address them, which Secretary Kerry recently endorsed on behalf of the United States, and the latest short film in our “Healthy People, Healthy Environment” series, Paving the Way: Ethiopia’s Youth on the Road to Sustainability.

1. Is Wildlife Trafficking a National Security Threat?, Cameron Lagrone and Josh Busby

2. Adaptation, Resistance, or Subversion: How Will Water Politics Be Affected by Climate Change?, Anders Jägerskog, Anton Earle, and Ashok Swain

3. The World’s Most Hostile International Water Basins [Infographic], Schuyler Null

4. How to Create a New Climate for Peace: Preventing Climate Change From Exacerbating Conflict and Fragility, Lauren Herzer

5. What Paul Ehrlich Missed (and Still Does): The Population Challenge Is About Rights, Schuyler Null

6. The Sahel Beyond the Headlines: Underlying Demographic, Environmental Trends Erode Resilience, Carley Chavara, Theo Wilson, Schuyler Null

7. For Next Edition of Influential Global Trends Report, National Intelligence Council Looks to Expand Its Audience, Steven Gale

8. How Midwives Can Answer the World’s Maternal Health Woes, Linnea Bennett and Theo Wilson

9. From One Generation to the Next: New Wilson Center Film Explores Integrated Development in Ethiopia, Sean Peoples

10. NASA Data Reveals Most Major Aquifers Depleting Faster Than They Recharge, Linnea Bennett