Across the world, water scarcity is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Climate change is pushing rivers and aquifers into unprecedented extremes, droughts and floods ...
NEW DELHI (IANS) – India’s population is projected to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, making it the world’s most populous nation, according to the United Nations Population Fund’s State of World ...
Despite government efforts to boost fertility, China's birth rate fell to a record low in 2025.
China faces a shrinking population and record-low birth rates, challenging economic growth and straining pensions and ...
Despite lifting the one-child policy to allow three children, the fertility rate remains low. Most families cite the costs ...
The National Bureau of Statistics reported a birth rate of 5.63 per 1,000 people in 2025, down from 6.39 in 2023, marking the ...
The number of births fell to the lowest level in decades, while the country’s population shrank for a fourth consecutive year ...
China’s population fell for a fourth straight year and its birthrate tumbled as policymakers failed to slow a demographic ...
China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a record low, official data showed ...
The United Nations graph is an image worth 1,000 words as virtually no further explanation is needed as the world’s population explosion occurred after we discovered ways to process that black tar, ...
In 1980, the economist Julian Simon took to the pages of Social Science Quarterly to place a bet against his intellectual rival, the biologist Paul Ehrlich. The Population Bomb, Ehrlich’s 1968 ...