Tag: Population
Why China’s shrinking population is a big deal – counting the...
Feng Wang, University of California, Irvine
Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in...
8 billion humans: How population growth and climate change are connected...
Manfred Laubichler, Arizona State University
At first glance, the connections between the world’s growing population and climate change seem...
How ‘managed retreat’ from climate change could revitalize rural America: Revisiting...
Hillary A. Brown, City College of New York and Daniel R. Brooks, University of Toronto
Southern Italy’s rural Calabria...
The maximum human life span will likely increase this century, but...
Michael Pearce, University of Washington and Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997...
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
The US birth rate keeps declining: 4 questions answered
Marie Menke, University of Pittsburgh
Over the last few decades, birth rates have decreased across the globe.
The United States is no exception. Aside from a...
Counting 11 million undocumented immigrants is easier than Trump thinks
Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State University
It is now clear that there will be no question about citizenship on the 2020 U.S. Census.
After the Supreme...
A long fuse: ‘The Population Bomb’ is still ticking 50 years...
Derek Hoff, University of Utah
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Stanford biologist and ecologist Paul Erhlich declared on the first page...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
