In the U.S., many population groups try to smooth over controversy, preferring to highlight areas of broad agreement, such as making birth control universally accessible, educating girls, and ...

The speaker will be Catharina Hughey, a leader of this innovative program. Her topic is “Childbearing in the Era of Climate Chaos.” Please pass on this information to people of childbearing age.

Twenty years ago this spring, Morley Ballantine (then the Herald’s editor) gave me the responsibility of writing a column about human population issues. I want to take this opportunity to give an ...

Even without a formal school of public health, numerous avenues for public health related research and study have emerged at Stanford independent of a formal structure. Driven by a growing faculty and ...

A growing number of people in developing countries are emulating unsustainable, high consuming lifestyles. The global ‘middle class’ is estimated to grow from 3.2 billion at present to 5 billion by ...

The publication of key population and housing census data last week by the National Statistics Office points to a rapidly changing population in Nepal. Rapid shifts in urbanisation, migration, ...

Over 7.5 billion people now reside on planet Earth, according to the World Population Clock. But with more people could comes less access to resources like food and energy. A global population of 7.5 ...

Registered Charity No: 1114109 (England & Wales). Population Matters is one of the world’s foremost population charities. We encourage an open and fair debate about population growth and our ...

he world’s population is increasing quickly and was approximately 7.7 billion in 2019. It is over 8 billion today. Natural resources are declining to meet the expanding population’s demands. Some ...

SIR – It occurs to me the most immediate threat to the well-being of the communities of planet Earth is not the fact half the population desires to slaughter the other half, but rather the propensity ...