A group of Brazilian researchers has, for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks ...

One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations were. Typically, scientists rely on fossil records and ancient DNA to investigate these mysteries.

Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

The results reveal that the first establishment of a larger human population in north-eastern central Europe during the Final Paleolithic was followed by a dramatic population decline during the ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

On the one hand it seems that the United States has claimed the mantle of responsibility for taking world governments to task ...

Measles, which was 'eliminated' in the U.S. in 2000, could be endemic again within 25 years if current vaccination rates hold ...

The world economy is experiencing a major turning point, moving from abundance to scarcity, which alters economic dynamics ...

According to global urbanist Greg Clark, 55 years from now, the world’s population will have peaked, and nearly all of it ...

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 ...