The human population of Earth could collapse and be cut in half in just 40 years if the conditions on the planet change, ...

In 1960, three scientists published a paper in Science that calculated, with deliberate provocation, that the human ...

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

The ideal number of humans on Earth is around 2.5 billion and a major study explains what that means for our future.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of ...

Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of organisms of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As the human population increases and we build more and more ...

Right now, human population growth is doing something long thought impossible—it's wavering. It's now possible global population could peak much earlier than expected, topping 10 billion in the 2060s.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large parts of Mumbai face increasing flood risks from storms and sea-level rise. AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool Coastal populations are ...

Coastal populations are expanding quickly around the world. The rise is evident in burgeoning waterfront cities and in the increasing damage from powerful storms and rising sea levels. Yet, reliable, ...

Researchers formulated a mathematical equation that unifies 12,000 years of human population growth and points to an alarming ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Coastal populations are expanding quickly around the world. The rise is ...