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Right now there are 7.5 billion people on Earth - and counting. But the world in 2050 will be even more packed, according to new United Nations (UN) projections. This week they released the World Population Prospects: 2017...

Over 7.5 billion people now reside on planet Earth, according to the World Population Clock. But with more people could comes less access to resources like food and energy. A global population of 7.5 billion people has far-reaching...

Every hour 10,000 people are born. Fortunately a new crop of eco innovations will help tackle the pressures on our planet

The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. With world leaders meeting in Paris next week for crucial UN climate talks, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway – a place that...

The fate of 70 million people rests on what happens to the Mekong river. With world leaders meeting in Paris next week for crucial UN climate talks, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway – a place that...

Gaia Vince’s ambitious, all-embracing, compelling journey holds a mirror up to humanity’s epoch to reveal all we have destroyed, but may yet be able to save

The world’s population has been steadily on the rise and is projected to hit between 9.5 and 13.3 billion people by 2100. High fertility rates and the rising of the median age in each country are contributing factors, which...

With 1.25 billion people, India suffers from a level of resource scarcity beyond any other nation – but it’s making big moves in solar power and corporate responsibility

The wild tiger population in India has jumped from 1,706 to an estimated 2,226 since 2011, marking a 30% increase for the endangered big cat. As a result, India is now home to around 70% of the world’s tigers. This is much...

New studies reveal that increasing global temperatures are likely to put a damper on wheat crop yields. A six percent reduction in yields is expected for each 1.8 degree F (1 degree C) increase in temperature. Considering...

  The Chesapeake Bay was formed eighteen thousand years ago when glacial melting generated sea level rise that flooded the Susquehanna River Valley...

The author of Ten Billion on how we might avert a population catastrophe, his attempts to replicate photosynthesis, and why G8 leaders ought to wear tiesWatch Stephen Emmott reading extracts from his book...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me start by getting the jargon out of the way. The “NPP” is the “net primary productivity”. It is how many total tonnes of new plant matter are produced around the...

Researchers with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) has released their findings that between 30 to 50 percent of all food produced or up to two billion tons is thrown away each year...

Planned eco-city for 3m people matches Luxembourg in size and showcases urban 21st-century smart living, say developersStanding opposite Singapore, across the strait of Johor, is the site of a new project that its architects...