A population-based study led by the University of Turku, Finland, investigated factors associated with the prevalence of ...

Since its lowest point in the 1970s, the Baltic ringed seal population has grown from about 5,000 to 25,000 individuals. Behind this increase are hunting bans and the phasing out of environmentally ...

A widely reported study relies on weak data, inaccurate statistics, and misleading references to support its claims.

Readers discuss a guest essay about birthrates and the world’s population. Also: A citizens’ celebration for America’s 250th ...

Young people are not just thinking about their future children – they are thinking about the world those children will ...

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...

What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the ...

Despite representing only 4% of the world's population, the United States accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes ...

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says population growth stalled in the first quarter. The agency says the Canadian population rose by 20,107 people from Jan. 1 to April 1 to 41,548,787, the smallest ...

Researchers say they’re seeing more ticks throughout Pennsylvania this year. The Pennsylvania Tick Research Lab recorded about two and a half times more ticks this May compared to the same time ...

Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025.

Photos from the diving community revealed around 1,200 adult giant sea bass in Southern California as the critically endangered species slowly recovers from decades of overfishing.