Weeks Population

The Supreme Court of Pakistan yesterday produced a genuine "wow" moment when they urged the country to strive for a two child per ...

The new UN report on the quickness with which climate change will dramatically our lives has attracted more attention than I was worried it...

I'm sure that you've seen the report that came out this week from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Last week the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) issued its latest  State of Food Security and Nutrition in the Wo...

Thanks to Professor Rubén Rumbaut for pointing me to a story from NPR a few days ago about the quick rise and fall in the summer of 1965 of...

I have mentioned before that as China gets richer, the population has been demanding more meat in the diet, especially pork. While the pigs...

Tomorrow (June 11th) is World Population Day, as proclaimed by the United Nations back in 1989. In preparation for that event, two very int...

Today I came across an op-ed by a physician in south Florida extolling the health virtues of a plant-based diet, and I couldn't help bu...

This year marks 50 years since Paul Ehrlich published his seminal book The Population Bomb: Population Control or Race to Oblivion?   Profes...

This was the question that Malthus asked most famously way back at the end of the 18th century. We have been very innovative in our ability ...

The common mantra in the world is that "China will grow old before it gets rich." This is based on the fact that the rapid drop in...

I spent this morning in the company of people who have organized the University of California Global Health Institute's Center of Excell...

This is Earth Day 2018, although as I've said many times over the years, every day really is Earth Day, because we don't have any al...

A new report was published this week detailing the worsening worldwide land degradation . The research was produced by the Intergovernmental...

It has been two years since I commented on the World Happiness Report, sponsored by the United Nations, and edited by Jeffrey Sachs at Colum...

It has been many years now since we had the first confirmation of the rapid melting of Arctic ice. But every time I see a new story about it...

Bill and Melinda Gates have been doing intensive and extensive philanthropic work for nearly two decades. The initial thrust of the Gates Fo...

The New York Times published an Op-Ed this morning by Maggie Astor promoting the idea that people may choose not to bring a child into a wo...

Today I want to catch up on two links that readers have posted over the past few days. Both of them raise huge questions about the future of...

The latest version of the World Inequality Report shows the unmistakable fact that the rich just keep getting richer. This is true not just ...