As Bangladesh recovers from another cyclone, an internal migration crisis is deepening in this country, one of the most vulnerable in the world to the effects of climate change.
The number of births for the United States last year dropped to its lowest in 32 years, according to provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics. The total fertility rate is also at a record low.
Cities, which are home to more than half the world's population, are stepping up efforts to slash pollution, often wresting the fight against climate change away from national governments.
The human toll of natural disasters is expected to increase as Africa's population swells, especially in cities, leaving denser communities vulnerable to widespread destruction.
German schoolteacher Verena Brunschweiger is part of a growing movement of women and young people who have vowed not to have a families out of concern about a looming climate change crisis.
Potentially disastrous habitat loss in Manitoba’s southern grasslands threatens the region's biodiversity, experts warn — and the humans who rely on it.
California's Central Valley continues to grow in population even though it suffers some persistently high unemployment. The state's new governor is pushing economic development in the region, but a new report from a think tank isn't encouraging.
Human ingenuity thwarted past predictions of population-growth-induced disaster. Now that population growth is slowing, it’s still ingenuity that we need.
The warming climate is a major driver that is exacerbating the effects of overfishing, widespread pesticide use, pollution and urban expansion into the natural world.
A dire United Nations report, based on thousands of scientific studies, concludes a million species are at risk of extinction. The dwindling number of species will not just make the world a less colorful or wondrous place, the report noted. It also poses risks to people.
A major United Nations assessment to be released today in Paris is expected to spell out the possible extinction of up to a million species, many within decades.
As far back as he can remember, Willard Church Jr. has gone out ice fishing well into the month of April, chopping holes that were easily four feet deep into the Kanektok River near his home.
Faced with growing populations, rising sea levels, and shrinking amounts of available land to build on, Singapore and other coastal cities and regions, from Hong Kong to the Netherlands, are eyeing the creation of floating marine real estate.
In the face of increasingly unsustainable urban environments, do we retrofit existing cities, or relocate and build new cities to achieve greater sustainability? The answer is both. But each has its challenges.
