A fossil fuel-powered future for Africa will come at a drastic human cost

Annual emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides on the continent are expected to double by 2030, compared to 2012 levels.

qz.com

Indoor farming is one of the decade’s hottest trends, when it comes to climate change solutions

How to feed a hotter, more crowded planet is the question of the century. Indoor urban agriculture offers one answer -- but it's not a perfect one.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Local water scarcity spilling over into global crisis, researchers warn

Population growth and climate change are putting increasingly intense pressure on the planet's limited water supplies, with worsening shortages emerging from the Middle East to Asia and Latin America, researchers and bankers said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

Joel Savage: Can Ghana prevent the threat of overpopulation?

For our dear nation Ghana to be a successful country, with a sustainable economy, the government has more to do than the fight against corruption because overpopulation leads to exhaustion of natural resources, environmental degradation, and rising unemployment.

www.modernghana.com

The divide in Yakima is the divide in America

What the changing demographics of this country look like up close.

www.nytimes.com

Putting homes in high-risk areas is asking too much of firefighters

Land-use planning should give more weight to the increasing risks of natural hazards like bushfires as the first step in reducing the impacts.

theconversation.com

William Rees: Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase

The human enterprise is in potentially disastrous 'overshoot', exploiting the ecosphere beyond ecosystems' regenerative capacity and filling natural waste sinks to overflowing.

mahb.stanford.edu

Alex Ezeh, Garumma Tolu Feyissa: What's driving Africa's population growth. And what can change it

High fertility is driven by a number of factors including desired family size, low levels of use of modern contraceptives, and high levels of adolescent childbearing.

theconversation.com

Overpopulation Podcast: Kids - To have or not to have?

Is motherhood an essential part of womanhood? The filmmaker shares her thoughts and observations on the subject with the World Population Balance team.

www.worldpopulationbalance.org

Is concern about population growth exaggerated?

What’s happening to human numbers – and what should happen – is a hot topic again. Mohan Rao and Sara Parkin go head to head.

newint.org

A sinking metropolis

Jakarta is sinking, many neighborhoods are below sea level and battling floods, its groundwater sources are becoming harder to reach and more contaminated, and its rivers are fouled with garbage and raw sewage.

www.circleofblue.org

Cities worldwide are reimagining their relationship with cars

Cars changed the way we move. They also led to toxic levels of air pollution in many cities. Now, under pressure from their citizens, city officials are experimenting with new ways to reimagine the role of cars.

www.nytimes.com

Arizona’s water supplies are drying up. How will its farmers survive?

As the mighty Colorado River dwindles and cropland dries out, farming families face a grim choice: give up or somehow adapt.

thefern.org

1,000 population scientists meet in Uganda

The 8th African Population Conference, the largest scientific meeting on population issues on the continent, is scheduled to commence in the Ugandan city of Entebbe on Monday.

www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh

Michael Petterson: How growth in population and consumption drives planetary change

Discussions about climate change often skirt around the issue of population growth, but it is the main driver of rising carbon dioxide levels and many other environmental changes on a planetary scale.

theconversation.com

Norman Myers dies at 85; sounded early alarm on environment

He lobbied governments and wrote books, papers and articles to alert the public to looming disasters like mass extinction well before they were common knowledge.

www.nytimes.com

The changing demographics of America's suburbs

The changes in the demographic makeup of America’s suburbs are so profound that some urbanists are calling for a new sociology of suburbia.

www.citylab.com

Time to talk population again

This week, representatives from Population Matters will attend one of the most significant global meetings on population and development in recent years, the Nairobi Summit on ICPD 25.

populationmatters.org

How can companies protect the biodiversity they depend on

As crop varieties disappear, boosting biodiversity becomes smart business.

ensia.com

Warming climate, population sprawl threaten California’s future with more destructive wildfires

California's major wildfires might be under control, but the threat of bigger blazes hangs over the Golden State. Climate change, along with population sprawl, is setting the stage for even more destructive blazes going forward.

www.cnbc.com

Berenice Langdon: If we want to stop the climate emergency, we need to break the taboo around population and contraception

It's become extremely tricky to discuss the environmental effects of the world's growing population. But with emissions and habitat destruction both on the rise, the birth rate is going to have to come down.

www.independent.co.uk

Patricia Dérer: Population growth will make it harder to meet EU climate goals, while stable or declining populations will help cut greenhouse gas emissions in the EU

In the following exercise, we demonstrate how different migration and fertility-influencing policies can lead to large differences in future annual greenhouse gas emissions, and in cumulative emissions throughout the century in the European Union.

overpopulation-project.com

Africa poised to lead way in global green revolution, says report

The IEA predicts that solar energy will play a big role in supporting the continent's growing population and industrialization over the next 20 years.

www.theguardian.com

VIDEO: Kenya's population expanded by 9 million people in 10 years

There are 47.5 million people in Kenya compared to 38.6 million in 2010. Ken Okwaroh, Executive Director at Acepis and International Development Analyst joins CNBC Africa to share on the opportunities and the challenges.

www.cnbcafrica.com

Florence Blondel: Cracking knuckles and counting kids

Florence Blondel reflects on her family life in Uganda, and what it tells us about population growth in her home country, and across much of Africa. She also identifies some positive changes coming.

populationmatters.org

Thinking big: New Zealand's growing pains as population nears 5 million

New Zealand is navigating one of the most dramatic demographic transitions in modern times. How will this reconfigure its society, politics and environment?

www.theguardian.com

'Untold suffering': Global scientists warn of climate emergency

More than 11,000 scientists from around the world warn climate change will unleash "untold suffering" and called for action including curbs on population.

www.smh.com.au

Climate change: ‘Clear and unequivocal’ emergency, say 11,000 scientists

Human population growth needs to be addressed, say the authors.

www.bbc.com

Editorial: SoCal desperately needs more housing

California's elected leaders talk a good game on climate change, sustainability and the housing crisis. But when it comes to actually changing the sprawling land-use patterns that have clogged the freeways, multiplied greenhouse gas emissions, exacerbated economic inequality and sent the cost of housing sky high, they've been MIA.

www.latimes.com

Democrats’ baffling blind spot on cars

Transportation is the greatest source of greenhouse gases in the United States. Why are all the 2020 candidates so scared to say it?

www.huffpost.com

Mike Berry, Ian Lowe: No Australian city has a long-term vision for living sustainably. We can't go on like this

The demands on land and resources from our fast-growing cities are unsustainable, as are the wastes they produce. Yet still our leaders act as if unlimited growth is possible.

theconversation.com

A million people on Mars may not be wishful thinking

A sustainable, self-sufficient population of one million people can be achieved on Mars within 100 years, according to a new modeling study.

www.airspacemag.com

Climate change will make plants—and us—thirstier

Rising CO2 levels and a warmer earth means plants will grow bigger and have longer to suck the land dry. That’s bad news for human water supplies.