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Our understanding of the decline that human overpopulation is causing in animal species across our planet is nothing new. On the land, in the air and beneath the water, species large and small have long been struggling to adapt and survive as a growing human population continues to destroy animal habitats and ecosystems…

As the 2025 UN Oceans Conference gets underway in Nice, France, it appears that one of the primary root causes of ocean decline will not be discussed this week. The overarching theme of this week’s Conference, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, is ‘Accelerating action and mobilising all actors to conserve…

Around 90 per cent of the Earth’s human population will live in cities by 2080, according to expert. Today, around 4.4 billion people, just over half the global population, reside in urban areas. This urbanisation trend is expected to continue over the coming decades, raising critical questions: How will city-dwellers feed…

Sri Lanka’s population has grown by over 1.4 million according to the latest census. Figures for the Census of Population and Housing 2024, which have just been released, show that the population of Sri Lanka increased by over 1.4 million since the previous census in 2012. Sri Lanka’s new statistics, reported by the…

As the world battles with the escalating effects of climate change, driven by human overpopulation, a silent crisis is unfolding: millions of people globally are being uprooted from their homes, not by war or political persecution, but by rising seas, devastating droughts, and extreme weather events. Climate migration is no longer a future concern…

The UK population is projected to reach 72.5 million by mid-2032, up from previous estimates of 67.6 million, if current trends continue. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) projects an increase of 4.9 million (7.3 per cent) from net migration, with births and deaths aligned at approximately 6.8 million…

Yellowstone, the Western TV drama that for five seasons has been one of Paramount Network’s most popular shows, aired its finale in December. But while the fictional show drew on the natural beauty of a Montana ranch at the border of a national landmark, the real Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is under siege…

This week Nandita Bajaj, the Executive Director of Population Balance, spoke with Dr. Brian Henning, founder and Director of the Gonzaga Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment, at the Gongaza University in Washington. This online event, titled Confronting population denial amid…

After more than two years of negotiations, participating countries have failed to reach a landmark agreement on tackling plastic pollution. More than 200 nations met in South Korea last week for what was meant to be a final round of talks on addressing global plastic pollution. But deep divisions remained between…

The Chief Executive of Azerbaijan’s COP29 team appears to have used his role to encourage a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, according to a report by the BBC. Elnur Soltanov, a senior official at the COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan, appeared in a secret recording showing him…

According to a new study by UCL researchers, relaxing its restrictions on family size will make it more difficult for China to achieve its goal to be carbon neutral by 2060. The paper, published in Nature Climate Change, is the first research to analyse the impact of a country’s population policies on its future carbon emissions…

According to The Living Planet Report 2024, global wildlife populations have shrunk by an average of 73% in the past 50 years. The report, undertaken by the World Wide Fund for Nature, is a comprehensive overview of the state of the natural world, a stocktake of the world’s wildlife. Loss of habitat caused by human population growth…

Among the G20 nations, India has been lagging behind in terms of employment generation and the country needs to create 148 million more jobs by 2030 in order to keep pace with population growth. This was part of a speech made by the IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath at the Delhi School of Economics…

Overpopulation has once again been cited as a critical concern for India as pressure on the country’s public health infrastructure grows. Since India gained independence in 1947, its population has grown more than fourfold, from 336 million to over 1.4 billion, triggering concerns over worsening…

Canada’s 85 and over population is expected to triple over the next 40 years to as many as 4.3 million people, an increase that will place significant pressure on public services and the care system. According to figures released this week by Statistics Canada, the country’s population could reach…

According to a new World Bank report, water scarcity is threatening shared prosperity, and it is a problem worsened by population growth, urbanisation & climate change. The Water For Shared Prosperity report was released this week at the 10th World Water Forum in Bali. The report emphasises the broadening gap…

Population growth is causing a rapid and profound demographic shift in Iraq as the West Asian Republic continues to record over a million births each year. According to the United Nations Population Division (UNPD), Iraq’s population growth rate in 2023 stood at 2.27%, with the country’s current population…

Residents of Dublin are being advised to conserve water as population growth and climate change conditions put pressure on the city’s water supply system. Uisce Éireann (formerly Irish Water) has highlighted the need for water conservation in the Republic of Ireland capital…

Population growth, at both national and global levels, is escalating water demand according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), threatening both social and international stability. SPA national president Jenny Goldie claims that currently about half of the world’s population experiences severe water scarcity…

A new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health on March 5, explores the direct relationship between population size and environmental decline. The study, funded by Population Matters and led by Chitra Saraswati, a researcher with the Telethon Kids Institute, and Corey Bradshaw, Professor of…

Overpopulation in Brisbane has reached unprecedented levels and preparing to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games is not the only challenge currently faced by the Queensland capital. As Brisbane’s population growth continues, its housing crisis deepens. Vacancy rates in most greater Brisbane…

New Zealand experienced a surge in population in 2023, recording the fastest growth rate in the post-World War II era. According to the economic forecasting consultancy Infometrics, New Zealand’s population soared by 2.8 per cent in the 12 month period ending December 31, surpassing the 2 per cent growth…

Nigeria’s population is projected to swell to around 730 million by 2100, potentially elevating it to the world’s third-most populous country. With just over 227 million people, the African country is experiencing a population boom, with United Nations estimates suggesting that current numbers will almost double by…

The population of the United Kingdom could reach almost 74 million by 2036, latest figures suggest. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) projects the UK population will increase by 6.6 million people (9.9%) between 2021 and 2036. This includes a net migration of approximately 6.1 million people, plus around…

The Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has indicated that the population of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, has outgrown the capacity of its fresh water supply. During an interview on Ghana’s Citi Breakfast Show, Dr. Clifford Braimah highlighted the challenges GWCL faces…

The Police Federation of England and Wales has cited population growth as one of the key factors affecting the ability of the police force to deal with rising crime in the United Kingdom. Steve Hartshorn, the National Chair of the PFEW, released a statement on its website following the airing, on January 8, of…

Israel is expected to reach a population milestone in 2024, surpassing 10 million people. According to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics in Israel (CBS), the country’s population grew by 1.9% in 2023, reaching 9.8 million at the close of the year. According to the CBS, 179,000 new names were added…

Data released on December 28 indicates that the world population has grown by a further 75 million in 2023. According to the US Census Bureau, the global human population on January 1 2024 will be 75,162,541 higher than on New Year’s Day 2023, a growth of almost 1%. At the start of 2024, 4.3 births…

In response to a letter on the subject of ‘right to life’, the following letter was submitted to Trib Live and published on December 7, 2023. “Overpopulation is killing us. We need to start getting real about this problem, and I ask, where better to start than those who aren’t yet born and are unwanted by the parents?”

Malta’s opposition leader Bernard Grech this week said that overpopulation is the root of all problems currently facing the country. The Nationalist Leader also claimed that the Maltese government is hiding the country’s true population figures and called for Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo to resign from the…

With Pakistan’s population having already exceeded 240 million, the interplay between overpopulation and gender inequality has created a cyclical challenge for the country. As overpopulation puts further strain on Pakistan’s limited resources, this resource scarcity is, in turn, leading to unequal access to education and healthcare…

On World Cities Day, The United Nations has called for global action to turn overcrowded cities into engines of sustainable development and innovation. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres emphasised the vital role cities must play in sustainable development, emphasising the need for a global call to action.

According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), global climate-related disasters are increasing at a staggering rate. Back in 2020, the UNDRR issued a report detailing that in the 20 year period from 1980 to the end of 1999, the world had seen 3,656 climate-related disasters…

According to United Nations reports, India has now overtaken China as the world’s most populous country. The UN’s latest figures show that, at the end of April 2023, India’s population surpassed an estimated 1,425,775,850 people*, overtaking that of China. While China’s human population reached 1.426 billion in 2022…

In 2016, the American actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks appeared on the Today television show on NBC, where he discussed, amongst other things, the theories of Thomas Malthus. Malthus was an influential British economist, best known for his theory on population growth, which he outlined in his 1798 book…

Today, 15th November 2022, the earth’s human population reached and surpassed eight billion. And the most staggering (and worrying) of all the trends related to human population growth, is the reduced timespan in which each additional billion people have emerged on the planet. It was a mere decade ago…

Anthropocentrism refers to a human-centred, or ‘anthropocentric’ viewpoint. In philosophical terms, anthropocentrism is often used to label the belief that humans are the only, or primary, species of importance and high moral standing. Destructive human activities such as deforestation, trawling and mining…

Human rights are a basic entitlement of everyone, irrespective of gender, race, religion or nationality. These rights include, but are not limited to, bodily autonomy; the right for a person to govern what happens to their body without external influence or coercion. In some parts of the world, however, the reality paints…

There is almost no part of our planet where the negative effects of human overpopulation are not felt. And of all those effects, one of the most keenly felt is waste. Across land, throughout the oceans and blown by the winds, human generated waste is all around us. And it is building up at an unsustainable and ever-increasing…

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an essential element of life on planet earth. A harmless and odourless gas in small quantities, once released into the atmosphere, it becomes what we refer to as a greenhouse gas. Too much CO2 in the atmosphere can disrupt the planet’s natural temperatures, leading to what has…

Our understanding of the decline that human overpopulation is causing in animal species across our planet is nothing new. On the land, in the air and beneath the water, species large and small have long been struggling to adapt and survive as a growing human population continues to destroy animal habitats and ecosystems…

For centuries, mankind has believed the ocean to be almost limitless and immune to human impact, offering an endless supply of food, as well as a convenient resting place for unwanted waste. Although this belief was never tenable long-term, it is the exponential growth in human population over recent decades…

The second half of the 1960’s were boom years for frightening visions of what lay ahead for humanity. Science fiction novels about dystopian futures and films about mankind’s struggle for survival all found a willing audience. But none created more fear, controversy and debate than the writing of an American Biologist…

Climate change is happening because of man. The scientific evidence is undeniable and anyone but the most stubborn eristics would be hard fought to disagree. The causes of climate change are almost entirely anthropogenic, the primary ones being the increased use of fossil fuels, deforestation, increasingly intensive agriculture…

With the earth’s population having almost tripled in the last 60 years, it is easy to assume that concerns about overpopulation are relatively new. In fact, concerns over the number of people that our planet can reasonably sustain began to be raised, documented and published more than 200 years ago…