As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land areas. A new study shows where the largest changes will occur.

The global map was adapted from World Population: A Graphic Simulation of the History of Human Population Growth, a 2003 video produced by Population Connection (www.populationconnection.org).

This is a good week to ponder the dynamics of human population growth, and how it relates to the coronavirus pandemic, which is surging in the U.S. and globally, driven in part by population density.

Sources for the graph entitled "World Population Growth, 1800-2050," which appears at the end of the series, are the United Nations, World Population Prospects, The 2003 Revision, and estimates by ...

ONE occupational hazard of writing about the environment is readers criticising my failure to mention the P-word. No, not polar bears, or plastic. Population. There is no environmental crisis, I ...

Children born today will very likely live to see the end of global population growth. A baby born this year will be 60 in the 2080s, when demographers at the U.N. expect the size of humanity to peak.

According to a new projection of human population growth, ... Search. Sign In. Sign In. Brandon Keim. Science. Sep 18, 2014 2:00 PM. Boom! Earth's Population Could Hit 12 Billion by 2100.

Paul A. Murtaugh is an associate professor of statistics at Oregon State University. Updated June 8, 2015, 6:46 AM The more catastrophic consequences of human population growth predicted by Paul ...

Clearing land to feed a growing human population will threaten thousands of species. The world’s farmland is projected to grow by 3.4 million square kilometers by 2050 ...

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.