Myth Busted: Falling Birth Rate Not Due to Less Desire To Have Children
The anxieties young people have about the future may be causing them to delay starting a family. Despite the worry of some regarding the decline…
Population News
Once in a Century Event Causes Mice Populations To Explode
The flowering and seeding of dwarf bamboo were shown to boost mice populations. Japanese field mice thrive in the large-scale flowering, seeding, and dying of…
Affecting Up to 216,000 Studies – Popular Genetic Method Found To Be Deeply Flawed
A new study reveals flaws in a common analytical method within population genetics. According to recent research from Sweden’s Lund University, the most commonly used…
The Pitfalls of Evolutionary Genomics
A study examines the benefits and drawbacks of evolutionary genomics. Claudius Ptolemy, an astronomer and mathematician from Alexandria in the second century, had a lofty…
Should We Slaughter Half of the Wolves in Sweden?
Scientists Say No Recently, the Swedish Parliament announced its intention to severely cut the number of wolves in Sweden, from 400 to 200. Now, scientists…
Chaos Is More Common in Populations Than Previously Thought
It’s possible that methodological and data restrictions, rather than ecosystems’ fundamental stability, are to blame for the notion that chaos is uncommon in natural populations….
An Avoidable Disaster: Experts Believe That Climate Change Threatens the Health of Billions
Climate change poses a significant danger to people’s health, yet solutions are within reach Climate change is thought to have a vast range of impacts…
Where the Wild Things Are: Scientists Map and Forecast Apex Predator Populations at Unprecedented Scale
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), together with national and international collaborators, have developed statistical methods that allows mapping and forecasting of…
NASA Study Shows Beijing’s Physical Area Quadrupled between 2000 and 2009
Using data from NASA’s QuikScat satellite, a newly published study demonstrates how to quantify urban growth based on observed changes in physical infrastructure. Scientists used…
New Study Links Expanding Human Population to Threats of Animal Extinction
A newly published study paints a grim outlook for the future of certain mammals and birds, suggesting that the average growing nation should expect at…
The Health Challenges of the Growing Class of Megacities
Megacities are usually defined by a total population in excess of 10 million, with an additional component of population density. Rapid urbanization will take a…
Cutting Food Losses Could Feed an Additional Billion People
A newly published study in Science of the Total Environment is the first to evaluate the impact of food losses and its relationship to resources…
Report Claims 100 Million Will Die From Climate Change by 2030
A new report commissioned by 20 different governments states that more than 100 million people will die by 2030 if nothing is done to tackle…
Projections of Urban Growth Highlight at Risk Areas
Researchers are trying to make detailed predictions about how urban areas are likely to grow in order to forecast how the next few decades of…
Theoretical Model on the Evolution of Cooperation
Using computer simulations and mathematical models, scientists developed a new theoretical model on the evolution of cooperation, finding that direct reciprocity alone is not enough,…
Evidence Suggests that Earth May Be Headed Toward an Irreversible Change in the Biosphere
A new paper by 22 international scientists describes the need for better predictive models based on detailed understandings of how the biosphere reacted in the…
Experimental Validation on How Populations Collapse
Working with populations of yeast growing in test tubes, researchers at MIT published the first experimental validation of the theory that populations suffering a decline…
Birth Ratios Skew Towards More Females During Famine
In China, during the Chinese Great Leap Forward famine, the male to female birth ratios fell significantly. This implies that whenever food is in short…
