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In the Central African Republic, researchers found an astronomical death rate. Could a major emergency be invisible?

China’s birthrate has slumped and women in most areas of the world are having fewer children. How will falling populations shape humanity’s future?

Climate change may be the existential threat, but underlying this is, of course, population size. And this is a problem that never seems to go away. There are of course two ways, broadly speaking, to limit population growth aside from draconian policies governing reproduction (such as China's One Child policy). One is sometimes called the demographic transition. This is when a combination of factors including so-called modernization which may involve increase quality of health care in com...

Rapid population growth is about to hit the countries whose economies and climates are least equipped to handle it.

The World Health Organization may no longer consider Covid-19 a global health emergency, but the virus is not going anywhere.

PARIS: The World Health Organisation (WHO) may no longer consider Covid-19 a global health emergency, but the virus is not going anywhere.

It was a major step towards the end of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.9 million people. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The virus is still circulating around the world and could still surprise us, experts warn

PARIS (May 5): The World Health Organization may no longer consider Covid-19 a global health emergency, but the virus is not going anywhere. While the UN agency's lifting of its highest alert level today marks a turning point in the pandemic, the virus is still circulating around the world and co

Virus is still circulating around the world and could still surprise us, experts warn