Page 6 - Human Population News Today

Let’s start with the unedifying facts. Real UK GDP per capita – that’s national output per head with inflation taken out – grew at 2.3pc per year from 1950 to 2008.

The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the...

Carrying his young son onstage to illustrate his point, Elon Musk on Saturday urged the people of industrialized nations to have more children. Immigration alone can't counteract...

To communicate risks, we often turn to stories. Nuclear weapons conjure stories of mutually assured destruction, briefcases with red buttons, and nuclear winter. Climate change conjures stories of extreme weather, cities overtaken by rising sea levels, and crop failures. Pandemics require little imagination after COVID, but were previously the subject

A recent study uncovers a profound historical connection between shifting climates and their impact on human populations during the Neolithic and Bronze Age epochs.

A new climate report provides a raw, stunning assessment of the world we’ve unraveled.

As bear attacks rise in Japan's sparsely populated villages, robot wolves have become a solution.

A pair of sandals woven from grass around 6,000 years ago and found in a Spanish cave are being hailed as the oldest-known footwear in Europe. A fresh analysis of the ancient kicks discovered by 19th-century miners determined they were crafted during the Neolithic era, according to the journal Science Advances. The shoes were woven during a period of time in which the human population grew ...

Scientists theorized that the ancient human population decreased by 90% almost 1 million years ago. Click to read more.

The Doomsday Bingo Card includes 24 possible doomsday events. If one of these comes true, we will mark that square. The question is, by December 2023, will we shout out “BINGO!”? If we shout “BINGO!”, it is safe to say that 2023 will have been a pretty bad year. If we shout “BINGO!” twice or more, we are probably witnessing the coming collapse of human civilization.