New study warns of extinction threat for southern California's mountain lions

They could vanish in 50 years – or be protected by "wildlife corridors," researchers say.

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Could a Three Mile Island-related mass evacuation happen today? It would be a ‘crawl’

Over 144,000 hit the road when the TMI accident occurred 40 years ago. Emergency personnel are far more prepared today, but there are also a lot more people living in central Pennsylvania than in 1979.

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8 cities are taking space away from cars to cut pollution

Cities around the world are starting to see that they'll be cleaner, healthier, and just better overall if people–not cars–are the priority. Also, as populations grow, there just isn't enough room on city streets for everyone to sit in a car of their own.

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Africa is running out of water as cities see populations boom

Africa has been plagued by water shortages in recent months, manifestations of a global supply squeeze brought on by drought, population growth, urbanization and insufficient investment in dams and other infrastructure.

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People now paying for sick world

Unsustainable production and consumption patterns, inequality and population growth-driven increase in resource use are "deteriorating planetary health at unprecedented rates with increasingly serious consequences especially for poorer people and regions," warn UN scientists and experts.

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Britain (yes, rainy Britain) could run short of water by 2050, official says

Climate change and population growth, meaning less supply and more demand, could equal an “existential threat,” England’s environment chief warned.

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Nick Brandt's best photograph: Elephants and building workers share a crowded Africa

There is only so much space for people and animals to coexist. That is what I wanted to depict in This Empty World, my series of shots taken in southern Kenya in 2017.

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Reducing global population growth important in preventing environmental degradation, Alok Bhargava says

The United Nations 17 sustainable development goals have failed to recognize inter-dependence between the goals and the role of population growth, according to an Indian econometrician and professor at University of Maryland.

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The rapid decline of the natural world is a crisis even bigger than climate change

A three-year UN-backed study from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has grim implications for the future of humanity.

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Laila Lalami: I am an immigrant. Someday you might be one, too

Increasingly, people are being forced to flee their homes not just by war and poverty, but also by climate change. It’s time we rethink our antiquated ideas about immigrants.

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Cities of the future: How developers are working to reverse the health and climate impacts of urban sprawl

A National Geographic special issue looks at the way we've built cities in the past and how we will reverse the effects on the climate and our own health in the future.

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Air pollution deaths are double previous estimates, finds research

Europe's dense population and poor air quality results in exposure that is among the highest in the world.

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BirthStrikers: Meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends

A movement of women have decided not to procreate in response to the coming ‘climate breakdown and civilisation collapse’. Will their protest be a catalyst for change?

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How population has helped shape the world, from wars to the election of Trump

From wars to Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, recent history has been shaped by demography, one expert says.

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Climate change will expose half of world’s population to disease-spreading mosquitoes by 2050

Scientists and public health officials have documented an increasing number of outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses across the globe in recent years, including yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika.

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Chemicals found in carpets, floors and clothes damage sperm

Chemicals found in household items are damaging the sperm of both men and their dogs, research has found.

Climate change claims its first mammal extinction

New study warns of extinction threat for southern California's mountain lions

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