The Center’s Population and Sustainability program addresses the impacts on wildlife and the environment that are caused by human population pressure and destructive consumption and production. We ...

The United Nations-demarcated World Population Day on July 11 prompted a relook at the figure of the number of people in the world, and how each country is faring. The world’s population has now ...

Zoom out on the graph of human population until it encompasses the entire timeline of our species and you’ll notice something alarming. It looks like a right angle, with one line hovering near zero ...

On November 15, the United Nations (UN) estimated the world’s population to have surpassed eight billion. This week, new demographic statistics from China show the country’s reported population ...

Evolutionary dynamics act on populations. Neither genes, nor cells, nor individuals evolve; only populations evolve. In small populations, random drift dominates, whereas large populations are ...

With the population of the world increasing at such an astounding rate, it is quite a shock to learn about these top 12 countries with declining population. The latest population report issued by the ...

Conspicuously absent in the Paris Climate Accord is any mention of human overpopulation. Surely the time has come for humanity to openly acknowledge that environmental decline is linked directly to ...