Addis Ababa faces growing climate change risks like heat, drought and floods, study warns
Increase in the city’s population will be absorbed by informal settlements, the prime destination for most migrants
Increasing population puts pressure on land and water too: UNCCD
Demand of water for agricultural purposes will double by 2050 due to increasing demands for food
Temperature increase could accelerate rise in antibiotic resistance
Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists
Penguin fight: understanding animal contest behaviour in five easy steps
The battles seen in a recent viral video and the BBC's Planet Earth II documentary are just a glimpse of the contests that take place throughout …
The declining infant mortality rate indicates that our growth rate will decline further
Amulya Ratna Nanda, registrar-general and census commissioner of India, feels the country has made some progress in bringing down its growth rate
World population touches 7 billion
Ten billionth baby likely by end of the century if population growth continues at current rate
Population: Has bio-politics arrived in India?
A collection of articles which re-examine the population debate in the light of the BJP-ruled Assam and Uttar Pradesh proposing population-…
The earth now has 8 billion humans; is the notion of a ‘finite planet’ a myth?
More than numbers, humanity needs to consider how resources are produced and distributed, what is consumed, by whom, and how much
Back after 70 years: Narendra Modi releases African cheetahs into Kuno enclosure on his 72nd birthday
Prime Minister asks wildlife aficionados to be ‘patient’ and ‘give the cheetahs some time’, thanks Namibia and South Africa
Male fertility crisis: What environmental contaminants have got to do with it
The way environmental factors affect fertility and cause effects over multiple generations may involve the epigenome of sperm
South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world — and that doesn’t bode well for its economy
The older people population is projected to be 20% of the country by 2025 and could reach an unprecedented and astoundingly high 46% in 2067
Kenya’s population: 5 key findings in the past 20 years of research
There are huge differences in health, education & other social outcomes among residents of urban informal settlements when compared to other …
Overpopulation is not the source of all our ills
In these times of climate change, the world needs fresh ideas to get out of the logjam over whether population is a curse or a resource
Why time seems to go by more quickly as we get older
Apparently accelerated time travel is not a result of filling our adult lives with grown-up responsibilities. Research seems to show that …
India, China share global burden of mental illnesses
The overall population growth in India explains a greater proportion of the increase in mental, neurological and substance-use disorders
Centuries of scarcity
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Parched tip
Kanyakumari stands testimony to the fact that unchecked population growth and faulty land use can lead to water scarcity even in places wallowing …
An identity crisis for the South
The developing world needs to define what the South represents, for otherwise it risks its legitimacy as a negotiating bloc
Irrigation aid for India stopped
American aid for Indian irrigation projects has been withdrawn as focus shifts to other sectors.
Not too many people
Demographers say world population will decline and one-fifth of it would be above 50 years by 2050
8 billion people: why trying to control the population is often futile – and harmful
Rather than trying to increase or decrease the number of people, we must build a planet that enables everyone to live their lives freely, …
Asiatic Cheetah cubs born for the first time in captivity in Iran
The cubs were delivered by C-section at the Touran Wildlife Refuge in the Semnan province east of Tehran on May 1, 2022
Sambhar tragedy: Are birds second class wildlife, ask experts
Not only are bird species not monitored properly but information about instances of their mass death is suppressed, they allege
Fertility in 91 countries insufficient to maintain population: study
The baby bust in 91 countries, including Singapore, Spain, Portugal and South Korea is happening simultaneous to a baby boom in 104 countries, …
Road salt can change sex ratios in frog populations, finds study
The researchers found that the proportion of females reduced by 10 per cent when exposed to road salt