Earth has already exceeded its ability to support the global population sustainably, with new research warning of increasing ...

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world population is on ...

Professor Kenneth Johnson told Newsweek that in the long run, these population shifts will have "significant implications." ...

Declining population or depopulation has emerged after years of warnings about overpopulation. While biologists see benefits from depopulation, some economists fear reduced investment, slower economic ...

The world faces an unprecedented demographic shift that has governments and experts scrambling for solutions. While global population reached 8 billion people in November 2022, the UN's 2024 ...

Even in areas relatively undisturbed by human activity, insect populations are on the decline, with climate change as a likely culprit. That's the finding of new research from the University of North ...

Animals are going extinct at an alarming rate. With nearly 200 species of animals and insects disappearing daily, organizations have been working for years to slow this decline. One of the hardest hit ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

We are on the cusp of a major and unprecedented turning point in human history. For the first time in as long as humans have roamed the earth, the global human population is about to peak and begin an ...