and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the human population grow, and what does that mean for climate change, resource use, and biodiversity?). Studying population growth also helps ...

The population of the Earth is set to reach 8.09 billion come New Year's Day, although the global birth rate is slowing ...

The third and largest wave began in 1800 with the harnessing of fossil fuels. With enormous, cheap energy at its disposal, the human population grew rapidly from 1 billion in 1800 to 2 billion in 1930 ...

Tracking coyote movement in metropolitan areas shows the animals spend lots of time in natural settings, but a new study ...

Geographical barriers and cultural differences can prevent people from mingling with their neighbors, leading to genetic ...

The idea was originally associated with the human population, and was brought to public attention as early as the eighteenth century by Sir Thomas Malthus. His writings influenced Darwin’s ...

This event will be discussing the findings of the report and the linkages between population growth, socioeconomic development and environmental change. The human population has experienced a ...

The graph shows that the human population is growing. This is because the birth rate is much greater than the death rate. In the last fifty years, the population of humans on the planet has ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Urbanization of the Human Population ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 3 (September 1965), p. 40 doi:10.1038 ...