Ehrlich's predictions of cumulative environmental damage are best illustrated by the growing intensity of climate change and species loss as the global population continues to grow even though the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The UN estimates that the world’s population will top out at 10.3 billion by 2080 before it enters a slow descent, ending 100 million lower by 2100.

Suggested Citation: "PART I--PANEL REPORT: Executive Summary." National Research Council. 2005. Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions. Washington ...

Global fertility rates have been falling for decades and are reaching historically low levels. While the human population now exceeds 8 billion and may top 10 billion by 2050, the momentum of growth ...

Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...

Van Bocxlaer, Bert, Albrecht, Christian, and Stauffer, Jay R. 2014. "Growing population and ecosystem change increase human schistosomiasis around Lake Malaŵi ...