After John Uwagboe moved to Scotland in 2008 he did not see another black man for several weeks. When at last he did, on the ...

The world's population, currently standing at 7.6 billion, is expected to see a sharp rise in the coming decades, according to the latest United Nations report released in 2025. The report outlines ...

World Population Day 2025 highlights a global population exceeding 8.2 billion, with India leading at 1.46 billion, surpassing China. The United States stands third with 347 million, driven by ...

It’s time for everyone to engage in the depopulation debate, says Dean Spears, a co-author of After the Spike.

Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging ...

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 ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying ...

Over five decades later, the global conversation has reversed. Instead of overpopulation, today's greatest demographic concern is decline. According to the United Nations, the world population is now ...

A million years ago, in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” unleashed two menaces on the planet. The first, of course, was dinosaurs, as the movie warned would-be genetican engineers ...

While Florida has the highest share of renters ages 65 and older, the fastest growth in senior rentership occurred in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The rich are getting richer by the day, with the wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires shooting up by $6.5 trillion in real terms over the past decade. The average billionaire wealth rose by ...

The World Council of Churches has launched an Ecumenical Decade of Climate Justice Action, following a session at the WCC central committee meeting.