U ntil recently, the world’s population growth showed no signs of slowing, yet over the last few years it has quite spectacularly ground to a halt. In fact, populations are now thought to have peaked ...

Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf pairs are also sighted much more rarely than might be expected. The reason, new research suggests, has to do with where and ...

POPULATION is far from the seemingly innocuous and bland topic of “people”. We’re not just talking people. We’re talking the ...

It’s no surprise that India will remain the most populous country in the world even after 75 years. In 2023, India took over ...

South Korea’s urgent demographic crisis, marked by one of the world’s lowest birth rates, may find its solution in a drastic overhaul of its wo ...