Humanity could be on the cusp of a civilizational collapse, according to population ecologist William Rees. In November 2022, the global population hit 8 billion, according to estimates by the United ...

The United Nations projects the world’s population will grow by about 2 million people over the next 30 years to reach a high of around 9.7 billion people by 2050, and perhaps peaking at 10.4 billion ...

Mosquitoes looking to mate in Australia are about to have the worst sex of their lives – thanks to genetic modifications turning their semen toxic. That's part of a new mosquito population control ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. It took 300,000 years for the human population to grow to one billion souls. We hit that milestone in the early 1800s. And ...

New research showing high infant mortality rates are contributing to an incessant rise of the global human population supports arguments for greater access to contraception and family planning in low- ...

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In early 2023, China officially admitted that the country is experiencing population decline for the first time in 60 years. That announcement did not surprise ordinary Chinese residents struggling to ...

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