The impact is especially pronounced in Japan, which the United Nations has classified as a " super-aged" society —meaning at ...

UNITED NATIONS — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new ...

The collapse in birth rates that began in post-war Europe has, in the decades since, spread to every single corner of the globe. Many nations are already feeling this death spiral, filling more ...

On a special episode (first released on August 1, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Across the globe, populations are in precipitous decline. People are simply not having children at the fertility rate ...

The Chinese government has announced a road map for expanding services for elderly people, amid fears that the rising proportion of retirees will weigh on the world's second-largest economy. Newsweek ...

We face a climate crisis and something needs to change. The world's resources are finite, as is the amount of destruction humans can do to this planet if we are to survive. As such, there is a debate ...

The world has made little progress in combating global hunger as conflict, extreme weather and economic challenges restrict people’s access to food, according to the United Nations. About 733 million ...

It’s easy to tell when it’s smog season in New Delhi; the air gets darker, heavier and starts scratching the throats and ...

SACRAMENTO — Sienna Jackson doesn’t know where she’d be if she hadn’t found Street Soccer USA. But she knows where she wouldn’t be: in a home, in dental school or starring for the U.S. in the Homeless ...