population

The notion that we’re headed towards some kind of populational apocalypse—that there exists a line which, once…

Americans are continuing to have fewer and fewer children, according to a new government report released this week.…

Earth might be looking a little worse for wear, after the last four-hundred years of reckless wide-scale resource…

It took a long time to get going. But once we did, damn, we kind of got out of control didn’t we?

Here’s a thought exercise that starts getting kind of gross the deeper you dive into it: what if the entire world’s…

The world is urbanizing faster than ever, with over half of the planet’s population currently living in cities—more…

Europe has what you may call a man problem.

There’s over 7 billion people on this planet of ours and some estimates peg the population to reach 10 billion by…

We keep hearing that this is the age of rapid urbanization: By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live…

Outside the Florida Everglades, cougars haven’t lived east of the Rockies in over 100 years. But, a new study finds…

In a rare note of dissent from a prominent scientist, Paul Ehrlich is denouncing Pope Francis’s call to action on…

It’s Space City versus the Second City: According to new reports, massive job growth in Houston will soon propel it…

The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has assembled a map that shows just how…

Redditor TeaDranks has created a super-interesting cartogram in which the size of each country is apportioned…

A new study concludes that strict fertility measures, such as a one-child policy, or even a mass catastrophe like a…

In France, they know how to relax: on public holidays, virtually all city dwellers flee the urban environment to hit…

Our global population of 7 billion has been steadily expanding and it's only going to grow faster as the century…

Now that Ebola is ravaging parts of West Africa, a nasty meme is once again rearing its ugly head — the suggestion…

By 2025, the biggest cities in the world will not only be bigger, but exceptionally denser. According to a new…

Contrary to previous projections, it now appears that the world's population is unlikely to stop growing this…