Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of these changes is human population growth. This is the central finding of ...

Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's former permanent representative to the United Nations, has warned that uncontrolled population ...

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 ...

Since 1805, the number of humans on Earth has skyrocketed from one billion to eight billion. Zoomed out, the growth appears positively parabolic. For everyone alive today, the present population boom ...

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 ...

"The milestone is an occasion to celebrate diversity and advancements while considering humanity's shared responsibility for the planet," says UN Secretary-General António Guterres Kimberlee Speakman ...

Our species is nothing if not prolific. The world’s human population is expected to reach 8 billion this month and increase to 10 billion over the next 60 years, according to demographers at the ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists have performed genetic analysis on a previously unknown ancient Indigenous population in the Pampas region of ...

Ancient bones pulled from the soil of central South America are rewriting what I thought I knew about the peopling of the ...