For half a century, fertility rates around the world have been drifting downwards thanks to a confluence of rising education ...

Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would ...

Nevertheless, here are ten predictions for the world for the year just getting underway. First, the war in Ukraine, the dominant issue of 2022, will continue, albeit at a less intense level.

Scientists can be sadistic people at times. Now, they’ve simulated what will happen to us all if Bennu, a hill-sized piece of space rock, indeed does end up colliding with Earth.. You’ve ...

If the world was responding to climate change like it’s responding to the coronavirus—the level of urgency that the science says is necessary—things would look dramatically different.

The post-pandemic world approaches. According to some projections, up to half of all Americans could be vaccinated by June, and another 30 percent may have acquired natural immunity through ...

India's population is projected to peak at around 1.7 billion in the early 2060s before gradually declining but it will ...

If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the U.S. crashing into recession, America's economy would hardly sink alone. The repercussions of a first-ever default on the federal ...

Governments borrowed on a scale not seen since the second world war, to bolster the incomes of those unable to work. America’s government budget deficit exceeded 12% of GDP in both 2020 and 2021.