More than a third of 50 recently surveyed Nobel laureates cited “population rise / environmental degradation” as the biggest threat to humankind. Second on the list was “nuclear war ...

However, many sources of environmental stress affect population growth, irrespective of the density of the population. Density-independent factors, such as environmental stressors and catastrophe ...

How will our growing population affect ... decoupling the growth in population and in economic activity from a further acceleration of resource extraction, waste generation and environmental ...

Population numbers were kept low because ... A person’s ecological footprint is a measure of their impact on the environment. The average ecological footprint of each human is currently 2.3 ...

The World’s Population Is Shrinking Rapidly — and Scientists Warn We’re Not Ready For What Comes Next The growth of the world ...

Population growth of populations subject ... to be common and are important to environmental management, clear documentation of demographic Allee effects in nature has mostly proved elusive.

Researchers have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species' population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems. The study revealed ...

Humans’ impact has been so profound that scientists have proposed that the Holocene era be declared over and the current epoch (beginning in about 1900) be called the Anthropocene: the age when the ...

human impact. If we all reduce our environmental footprint without addressing human population growth, our sheer numbers will continue to push other species out. If we slow population growth without ...

Scientists are gathering more evidence on which factor has more of an impact on human wellbeing amid the aging process.

Pakistan's rapid population growth has long been a major concern, but its implications for climate change, urban planning, and economic sustainability are now reaching a breaking point. With nearly ...