The report also highlighted that while some countries are witnessing rising unemployment, many employers across the world ...

In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to ...

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

According to a UNICEF and WHO report in 2019, one in three people on Earth did not have free access to safe drinking water. And if nothing changes, by 2025 two-thirds of the world's population could ...

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

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 ...

Politics aside, it is demographics that are driving the numbers for Social Security, and they will not change anytime soon.

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

A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them ...

Inspired by a mountain lion isolated from potential mates, the world's largest wildlife bridge is being built in Los Angeles ...

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