Climate Change Could Alter America’s Inland Cities, Study Says

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network May 1, 2017 If predictions of dramatic sea level rises by 2100 are correct, Miami could lose 2.5 million residents but Texas could gain 1.5 million. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Our Hungry World Need Not Fell Its Forests

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Apr 27, 2016 The rapidly growing human population can feed itself without worsening climate change by destroying the planet’s forests, researchers say. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Would You Refrain From Having Children to Save the Planet?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 30, 2014 The thought is repulsive to many people, especially among the religious. But experts acknowledge that cutting back on births is a sure-fire way to mitigate the consumption-fueled destruction of the environment. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Map Simulates Births and Deaths the World Over

Staff / Truthdig Nov 1, 2013 Looking for something to put things into perspective? Check out this real-time map to remind you how transient life is, but also, how quickly the world is becoming populated. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Scientists Urge Earth Summit to Act on Population Growth

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 14, 2012 Finally, someone in the mainstream is talking about Earth’s population problem. Talk falls short of action, of course, and it’s unlikely anyone with power will listen. But nevertheless the world’s leading scientists warned at the Rio+20 Earth Summit on Thursday that unchecked population growth and overconsumption could be civilization’s undoing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

World Population

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Industrial Capitalism Still on Course to Consume the World

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2011 Echoing the now-weary warnings of scientists, environmentalists and other well-meaning people, a United Nations report released Thursday says: “By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year -- three times its current appetite -- unless the economic growth rate is ‘decoupled’ from the rate of natural resource consumption.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Global Population Expected to Continue Exploding

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2011 The U.N. forecasts the world will hold more than 10 billion people by the end of the century, including a tripling of Africa's population. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Food Bomb

Barry Lando / Truthdig Feb 1, 2011 The world will need 70 percent more food in 2050 than it produced in 2000, but the resources available are plummeting. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Glenn Beck Is No Match for William Shatner

Staff / Truthdig Oct 19, 2010 Back in his CNN days, the cable crier was baffled by a conversation with the always fascinating William Shatner Even a chatterbox like Beck didn't know what to do with a statement like, "They're pressed together, defecating into the ocean and it's all it's just too much". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )