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 ...

We at VF.com would like to direct your attention to this remarkable, fascinating, and interactive (!) population-density graph. The map is the creation of University of Oregon graduate student Derek ...

New population projection statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) project that the UK will grow by 7.3 percent in the decade up to 2032. This net growth of 4.9 million people is ...

Sir David Attenborough is now patron of the Optimum Population Trust, which lobbies to cut the number of people on Earth. But predicting population change is tricky, says Michael Blastland in his ...

The U.S. census reported today that the national population grew by 2.8 million (or 0.92 percent) in the 15 months between April 2010 and July 2011. That's the lowest rate since the 1940s. Over the ...

WASHINGTON— The annual overwintering count of monarch butterflies released today confirms butterfly numbers fell by nearly one-third from last year's count, indicating an ongoing risk of extinction ...