Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

Nicknamed the “king of the kelp forest,” giant sea bass are among scuba divers’ favorite characters to spot off the California Coast. But very few of these charismatic fish remain. A team led by ...

On October 3, 2018, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) held a half-day joint symposium Population Health ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Beverly Grove-based Cedars-Sinai Health System has launched a research division focused on population science and its impact on health. The division, which was unveiled last month, will focus on ...

The world's population could reach 11 billion by the year 2100, according to a new statistical analysis. That represents 800 million more people than was forecast in 2011. Most of that increase comes ...

On November 15, 2022—as estimated by demographers—the count of humans on this planet reached eight billion. Population growth has been steady over the past few decades, with billion-person marks ...

On or around Oct. 31, 2011, the world's 7 billionth person will be born, the United Nation estimates. Even more staggering is that of the 7 billion people on Earth, about 1.4 billion of them will be ...

In an era of changing climate and sinking economies, Malthusian limits to growth are back—and squeezing us painfully. Whereas more people once meant more ingenuity, more talent and more innovation, ...

World Population Policies: Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact. By John May. Springer; 339 pages; $179 and £117. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk Political Demography: How Population Changes Are ...

It was Thomas Malthus — the British cleric and political economist, often railed against, rarely actually read — who cast a long shadow over thinking about our future. Writing around the turn of the ...