Population

The country's deputy prime minister called out unorthodox regional statistics at a meeting with medical officials.

The tongue-in-cheek decree was intended to shine a light on a French village school that faces closure.

A paper suggests that China has entered a long-term downward population spiral.

Changing how we grow food would mean soil could be given the chance to recover from degradation.

Although China is encouraging couples to have more children, many consider the calls "intrusive and insensitive."

According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, states such as Florida, Arizona and Nevada are likely to be crucial to the outcome of the 2020 election after experiencing hefty demographic shifts this past year.

The community's two residents, Mike and Mary Finnegan, organized a family reunion with the help of Ancestry.com that swelled the town's population by more than 2,000 percent.

Florida seems to be losing its luster as the retirement capital of America.

There has been no evidence of a decline in consumption and emissions, despite slowing birthrates.

Former industrial powerhouses have fared the worst, with Detroit and the outer reaches of Chicago losing inhabitants fast.

Seven out of nine captive giant pandas released to the wild since 2003 have survived the transition, China's state media said this week.

Thanks to their current high birth rate and young populations, African nations will shoot up the list of populous nations.

Ongoing development and expanding road networks have encroached on the Amur leopard habitats.

Montenegro has roughly the same population as Las Vegas

During the 1960s and '70s, academic liberals, civil rights advocates, and others blamed the exodus on racism—"white flight" to the suburbs. However, since the '70s, blacks have been fleeing some cities at higher rates than whites.

New evidence reveals a previously unrecorded indigenous population and poses a major challenge to existing theories about the earliest Americans.

Scientists were able to grow plants so quickly that one colleague couldn't believe it.

Coyotes in your city don't want to kill you, but they might try to eat your cat or small dog.

A Muslim takeover is seen as a long shot, even if Europe's Muslim population triples.

The slowing birth rate increases sustainability, the study says.

The Duke of Cambridge said new ideas were needed on how to manage water resources and the grazing of animals.

The world now has its second ever high-quality Neanderthal genome.

Global responses to overpopulation started decades ago. Global responses to global warming arrived much later. There is a relationship, but they are not the same thing.

The woman said she only realized the bullets were in her bag after she arrived at an airport in Tokyo.

Trump's budget would end America's support for foreign family planning assistance.

Australians aren't the only ones becoming less religious. Atheism in America has become more common in recent years, too.

Hispanics and Asians were the fastest-growing groups in the U.S. between 2015 and 2016.

Africa is expected to have the most population growth through 2050.

The current law allows attackers to walk free if their victim decides not to prosecute.

With a severely restricted immigration policy, Japan is now suffering from a lack of low-skilled workers, especially in the health services.