The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the century.

Jon Previtali of VDE Americas explains the hard science behind managing hail risk, one of the costliest sources of damage to ...

* Over 8 billion people live on Earth today, with the next billion coming fast * Fertility rates are declining in 60+ countries, while Africa drives future growth * Urbanization, //aging, and climate ...

Drawing on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others, World Population Review compiled its rankings of states by rates of obesity, seen here on this map created by ...

As the majority of representatives from developing countries, BRICS will act as a force in shaping the new world order.

This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from ...

What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the ...

The global population has continued to increase since then, even though the birth rate has fallen, largely because the world ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), on Wednesday, July 2, ...