For decades, researchers have focused on the problem of overgrazing, in which expanding herds of cattle and other livestock ...

Around the world, birth rates are falling and populations are shrinking. This talk explores what human population decline actually means, why it is often misunderstood, and how it affects economies, ...

A national environmental nonprofit said in a lawsuit that the federal government has failed to give the species stronger ...

He deliberately likened robots to "AI immigrants"—just as human migrants have historically filled labour shortages, robots ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Lancet has sent shockwaves through the global community, revealing that the world’s ...

Researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics have managed to analyse the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

The latest figures point to shifting migration patterns in the state, with pandemic after-effects still visible across ...

Spears and Geruso insist that depopulation is an issue relevant not just to particular countries or cultures but to all. That focus on humanity as a whole, however, ends up erasing borders, ...

The core insight is that the demographic challenge cannot be solved through incentives alone. Pensions, bonuses and subsidies ...

About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal - meat from a woolly rhinoceros - shortly before dying on ...

During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus SARS-CoV-2 was detected in an increasing number of non-human ...