In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying ...

Readers discuss a guest essay about birthrates and the world’s population. Also: A citizens’ celebration for America’s 250th ...

It’s time for everyone to engage in the depopulation debate, says Dean Spears, a co-author of After the Spike.

We’ve all heard that human overpopulation is a crisis. In 2017, Bill Nye warned us about the planet’s “people problem,” and ...

Birth rates are tumbling across the world. This isn’t just a tragedy for the growing number of women who have fewer children ...

Kabul could become the first modern city to run out of water by 2030, according to a report published by the nonprofit Mercy ...

In the state of Goa, 36 government primary schools were shut down in the two academic years leading up to 2024.