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 ...

"A large proportion of human-wildlife overlap may lead to increased zoonoses or the spread of other diseases," researcher Deqiang Ma said.

The idea that the human population might experience limits to growth was posed in 1798 in Thomas Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population Growth" and has generated debate for over 200 years.

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 ...

Perhaps an easier way to comprehend the rapid growth that has caused our population to double in less than 50 years is through a visual depiction of human population growth over millennia.

Human population growth and overconsumption are at the root of our most pressing environmental issues, including the species extinction crisis, habitat loss and climate change.

In particular, there is no mention of modern-day climate change, driven almost entirely by nonstop human population growth, especially in lesser-developed countries, and its consumerist demands.

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Population growth rate is currently 0.9 percent—still increasing slowly—but by the year 2100, it is projected to be -0.1 percent. Here’s what that means.

Some Americans recognize the urgency of reversing the world’s human population growth, and only a few environmental organizations make overpopulation a top priority. For many people, the ...