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 ...

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

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

The telecommunications revolution transformed our world and lived experience in ways so profound it was difficult to imagine ...

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.