Water might soon be more valuable than gold ...

Cities with the worst traffic in the world highlight the growing strain placed on urban infrastructure by modern lifestyles.

Exports played an outsized role in delivering this headline growth. Despite a simmering trade war with the United States, ...

U.S. fertility rates have plummeted to 1.53, well below the replacement level of 2.1.

China has had population control policies, which are now resulting in a declining population rate. To tackle that, it has now ...

If the corporate and political powers carry on with business as usual, such growth will end in chaotic, violent collapse. Stan Cox This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top ...

Australia has experienced the strongest population growth in the developed world this century. According to the ABS’ Population clock, the nation’s population has expanded by 8.9 million people this ...

A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, the country's authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies ...

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

Measured another way, the birth rate in 2025 — 5.63 per 1,000 people — is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao ...

China's population dropped for a fourth straight year in 2025, according to statistics released Monday that show a national population of 1.405 billion people, a drop of 3.39 million from 2024.

After yet another international climate summit ended last fall without binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, a ...