Humanity could be on the cusp of a civilizational collapse, according to population ecologist William Rees. In November 2022, the global population hit 8 billion, according to estimates by the United ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. It took 300,000 years for the human population to grow to one billion souls. We hit that milestone in the early 1800s. And ...

In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...

Research shows that our rapidly growing human population increases pressure on society and the environment, making it harder to address problems ranging from public health concerns to climate ...

After a quarter million years of growth, the human population is forecast to peak this century at around 10.4 billion. While environmentalists generally see the conclusion to our planetary ...

A new UN assessment says we're set to cross the milestone on Tuesday, but the pace of growth is slowing down. Reading time 4 minutes Sometime today, November 15, the 8 billionth human on Earth is ...

The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years, and that population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Over the past century, the world's human population has exploded from around 2 billion to 8 billion. Meanwhile, the average fertility rate has gradually declined. And if that trend continues as it has ...

Global fertility rates have been falling for decades and are reaching historically low levels. While the human population now exceeds 8 billion and may top 10 billion by 2050, the momentum of growth ...

The U.N. predicts the world population will reach eight billion by November 15. Grant Faint via Getty Images The population of humans on Earth is expected to reach eight billion by November 15, ...

Human ancestors nearly died out between around 930,000 to 813,000 years ago in an evolutionarily pivotal population bust, a contested new study concludes. This potential winnowing of human ancestors ...