and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the human population grow, and what does that mean for climate change, resource use, and biodiversity?). Studying population growth also helps ...

The third and largest wave began in 1800 with the harnessing of fossil fuels. With enormous, cheap energy at its disposal, the human population grew rapidly from 1 billion in 1800 to 2 billion in 1930 ...

For a long time, researchers have sought to estimate the size of North America’s Indigenous population before European ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

New research shows that antiabortion states are losing population, especially among single-person households, as concerns ...

"And then we found this positive effect of human population density on survival time. Both of those things are unexpected because we usually associate human activity with detrimental effects on ...