We start 2023 sharing the planet with 8 billion other people. Meanwhile, manufacturing of screens and the transition to renewable energy sources is limited by processes in minerals mining, the grid is ...

Can high population density lead to war? Recent events suggest that it can. You are probably aware that on Oct. 7, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (also called Hamas) launched a surprise ...

Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...

Let’s imagine we were giving an award for the worst social problem in the world today. Do you have any nominations? International conflict? Racial prejudice? Environmental destruction? Millions of ...

There is one thing that can be said for certain about the size of the world population: it is never exactly right. I spent much of my youth being warned of the dangers of overpopulation. There were ...

With all the attention paid to environmental destruction and global warming by ordinary citizens and world leaders, I fail to see why overpopulation is never addressed. It seems like one obvious root ...

As a young person in the United States, it can often be overwhelmingly frustrating to feel that we are left to deal with the consequences of our parents’ and grandparents’ actions. Overpopulation and ...

On march 31, Donna Hall mentioned overpopulation as having an impact on the earth. Thank you, Donna, for noticing the elephant in the room. Overpopulation is the root cause of our environmental woes, ...

The global population is set to surpass eight billion later this year, according to a United Nations forecast. Too few children? China’s ‘population crisis’ explained The Year Unwrapped: ...

When affluent white people wrongly transfer the blame for their environmental impacts on to the birthrate of much poorer brown and black people, their finger-pointing reinforces these narratives. It ...