Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover demographic, social and economic trends around the world. To be sure, continued population increases, particularly in very ...

A surge of stray cats in Cyprus is creating ecological and social challenges that officials are racing to manage.

The world population is growing at a rapid speed and while America may not yet feel the impact of the earth’s overpopulation, many other countries are losing resources and lack basic needs. As of Oct.

Overpopulation has been used as an excuse for everything from birth control to abortion to China’s ‘one-child’ policy. Worldwide, the fertility rate fell by almost 50% in less than 70 years. Worldwide ...

The tiny land-locked African country of Lesotho is the poster child for the impending population explosion in the mind of journalist Eugene Linden. That's far too simple a story. Malthusian conditions ...

Is global overpopulation the same as global warming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

Our population has just reached 8 billion people, but we are not the first ones to worry about overpopulation. In November 2022, the United Nations announced that for the first time the world’s ...

The definition of overpopulation is in the name: An area that’s beyond capacity to handle the material needs of the people living in it. Less than 1 billion people walked this planet in the mid-18th ...

We start 2023 sharing the planet with 8 billion other people. Meanwhile, manufacturing of screens and the transition to renewable energy sources is limited by processes in minerals mining, the grid is ...

As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to ...