Source: BBC
In his recent state of the nation address, President Vladimir Putin said the most urgent problem facing Russia is its demographic crisis.
Source: csiro.au
New research by CSIRO and Monash University has examined a series of scenarios for how Australian cities could cope with the likely rise in demand for water.
Source: usatoday.com
Progressives and liberals of Newsvine: What say you?
Source: eurekalert.org
For the first time, ecologists have been able to show that molecular variation in one gene may affect the growth of a population in its natural habitat.
Source: story.seguingazette.com
Professor seems to have had enough of crowded cities and suggests using the Ebola virus to kill off about 90% of the human population. If you think that's scary, he also has some followers, I wonder if they're volunteering...
Source: sas.org
"[Professor Eric] Pianka then began laying out his concerns about how human overpopulation is ruining the Earth. He presented a doomsday scenario in which he claimed that the sharp increase in human population since the beginning of the industrial age is devastating the planet.
Source: slate.com
China's future underpopulation crisis
Source: msnbc.msn.com
By the time the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina rolls around, New Orleans will have only about half of the population it had before the storm, according to a study released Wednesday.
Source: cnn.com
Still, that seems low:Pets outnumber people in the United States by about 60 million, with furry, feathered and scaly inhabitants numbering about 360 million, according to the pet industry.Do we count grasshoppers and sea monkeys? If so... maybe not.
Source: Debbie Berman - Arutz Sheva
The United States Congress heard a damning report this week about U.S. aid being over-alotted due to deliberately inflated Palestinian population figures.
Source: chicagobusiness.com
Hispanics become largest minority group in Chicago metro area, 5 years ahead of projections. Will growth translate into political power after 2010 census leads to new Congressional seats?
Source: slate.com
Between 1978 and the end of 2004, China took in $563.8 billion in foreign direct investment, more than 10 times the total that Japan amassed between 1945 and 2000.
Source: livescience.com
Wow! I thought it seemed crowded in here....
Source: wired.com
Source: news.tbo.com
America hit 100 million people in 1915 and 200 million in 1967.
Source: boston.com
FOR THE second year in a row, the Census Bureau reports, the population of Massachusetts has shrunk.
Source: economist.com
World population coming under control...?
Source: timesonline.co.uk
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
This is an editorial, nonetheless it is worth reading. Pirate King finds it thought provoking.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The global population is higher than the Earth can sustain, argues the Director of the British Antarctic Survey in the first of a series of environmental opinion pieces on the BBC News website entitled The Green Room.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Source: modbee.com
"The boomers have set up institutions that will continue to benefit them, at the expense of other groups, as they grow old and live longer than any other generation"