An evolutionary projection of global fertility and population: My new paper (with Lionel Page) in Evolution
Evolving Economics,
Forecasting fertility is a mug’s game. Here is a picture of fertility forecasts by the US Census Bureau through the baby boom…
Human population growth, refugees
ConservationBytes.com,
The global human population is now over 7.5 billion, and increasing by about 90 million each year. This means that we are…
Inexorable rise of human population pressures in Africa
ConservationBytes.com,
I’ve been a bit mad preparing for an upcoming conference, so I haven’t had a lot of time lately to blog about interesting…
The Energy Sector is One of the Largest Consumers of Water in a Drought-Threatened World
The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate,
Photo: Orin…
Migration and demographics: Longer-term perspectives
Journalist's Resource,
2016 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that provides one of the most comprehensive analyses to…
Limits to Growth: Policies to Steer the Economy away from Disaster
Resilience,
The existing economy is already environmentally unsustainable. It is utterly implausible to think we can “decouple” economic…
Towards Peak Impact
The Breakthrough Institute Full Site RSS,
In the past few years, decoupling – breaking the link between economic growth and environmental impacts – has become the new…
Our Newest Energy Consumer
,
We recently added a new member to our family. Since I have a tendency to look at the world through an energy lens, I’ve being…
The Little Ape That Could
Skeptical Science,
The little Ape that…
Quando la Terra si trova alla sua capacità massima
Effetto Cassandra,
Da “Lariat”. Traduzione di MR (via Population Matters) Di Jonathan AnsonLa Terra sta attraversando una pletora di problemi. La…
A closer look at scenario RCP8.5
Climate Etc.,
by Larry…
World population will be around 15-25 billion in 2100 and will increase through 2200 because of African fertility, life extension and other technology
Next Big Future,
The United Nations (UN) recently released population projections based on data until 2012 and a Bayesian probabilistic…
Redesigning Crops for the 21st Century
Pacific Standard. Smart Journalism. Real Solutions.,
Rice "terraces" in China. (Photo: jackfrench/Flickr)Though we don't always find what we want at the grocery store, in the…
To save animals, put more humans on birth control
Science Codex - Science news, science articles, all day, every day,
Conservationists tend to spend their time worrying about protecting forests, catching poachers or keeping carbon out of the…
Could The Pill Save The Polar Bear?
I Fucking Love Science,
Plants and…
How Scientific Inventions Sparked Population Explosion
Scientific American Blog: Observations,
A video timeline shows 2,000 years of population growth to projections to 2050 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Anche se tutti vivessero in un 'ecovillaggio', il mondo sarebbe comunque nei guai
Effetto Cassandra,
Da “The conversation”. Traduzione di MR (via Skeptical Science)Siamo abituati a sentire che se tutti vivessero allo stesso modo…
If Everyone Lived in an ‘Ecovillage’, the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble
Resilience,
Put otherwise, based on my calculations, if the whole world came to look like one of our most successful ecovillages, we would…
If Everyone Lived in An ‘Ecovillage’, the Earth Would Still be in Trouble
IFLScience - Environment,
Environment Photo credit: Solarseven/Shutterstock We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same…
Scientists more worried than public about world’s growing population
Pew Research Center,
Over the course of history, many scientists and activists have raised alarm about population numbers that only increase every…
These Photos Tackle An Uncomfortable Question: What If There Are Just Too Many People On Earth?
Co.Exist,
Population control is taboo. But it wasn't always that way—and a new book, showing images ranging from a mall on Black Friday…
The Future Of Food: Growing More With The Same Land
IFLScience - Plants and Animals,
Plants and…
Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition
Resilience,
We need an integrated approach, one that reconnects human development with the biosphere.
Former Greenpeace UK bucks NGOs opposition to GM crops, endorses some GMOs
Genetic Literacy Project,
One month after taking office, the Juncker Commission reached an agreement with the European Council and the European…
46 Important Things Science Taught Us In 2014
BuzzFeed - Latest,
It was a big year for robot penguins, snake penises, and space exploration. Sadly not all at the same time.
Feeding 9... er... 11 billion people
G-FEED,
Demographers have been telling us for a while that global populations will level off to about 9 billion, and this "9 billion…
Do Demographers Really Predict Future Population Trends Without Incorporating Women's Economic Incentives?
Environmental and Urban Economics,
While the University of Chicago recently celebrated Gary Becker's amazing career, the statisticians and demographers who…
How Would We Provide Enough Energy For 11 Billion People?
The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate,
Due to a slowing of birth rates, predictions of a world of 12 billion by 2100 or sooner seemed to be wrong. Population…
How Would We Provide Enough Energy For 11 Billion People?
Energy Outlook,
Reconciling energy and environmental concerns was challenging enough when global population seemed headed for a plateau around…
The Occluded Mirror: A Question of True Transparency
MAHB,
The Occluded Mirror: A Question of True…
Life in a 'degrowth' economy
Resilience,
What does genuine economic progress look like?
Recommended reads #36
Small Pond Science,
One Woman’s Life in Science. This came out almost twenty years ago in the Sigma Xi magazine, but it reads as if could have been…
China tops new list of countries most at risk from coastal flooding
The Carbon Brief,
Over 50 million people in China will be at risk from coastal flooding by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions…
Revitalizing Africa’s Soils
State of the Planet,
To feed our burgeoning global population, the world has to at least double crop yields by 2050, by improving seeds of high…
11 bilhões de pessoas, ainda vamos chegar lá
Meio Bit » Meio Bit,
O mundo que se prepare, 11 bilhões de pessoas é confusão garantida. Em 1970 o mundo teria supostamente atingido seu pico de…
Oops. By 2100, There Could Be 2 Billion More People Than We Anticipated
Co.Exist,
That oft-quoted forecast of 9 billion people is more than a little off. Say goodbye to your personal space.While climate change…
9 billion or 11 billion? The research behind new population projections
Nexus,
By: Wolfgang Lutz, Bill Butz, Samir KC, Warren Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov: IIASA World Population…
Science：尼日利亚将超中国成人口最多国家？
生物360最新文章,
一项研究预测，许多非洲国家正在改变少生孩子的全球趋势，全世界人口
Somewhere else, part 166
Freakonometrics,
Some posts and articles worth reading, “Financial Criminals Have Been Fined Billions, but They Rarely Pay” http://www.theatlantic…
UN Data on Population Growth is Bad News for Climate
Climate Central - News, Blogs & Features,
By Tim Radford, Climate News…
Population
Resilience,
New report overturns 20-year consensus on population estimates. New prediction is for a 70% chance of a rise from 7 billion…
Might world population actually just keep on growing?
Marginal Revolution,
The excellent Kevin Lewis points us to a new paper in Science by Patrick Gerland, et.al.: The United Nations recently released…
John Bongaarts at the Population Council thinks Climate Change has a good chance of limiting human Population but he is wrong
Next Big Future,
According to the new analysis by researchers at the United Nations and several academic institutions, there is an 80 percent…
Population could hit 12 billion, unless, you know, birth control
Grist,
Have a minute? Because you’ve got to see this. This map simulation lets you witness the most important events in people’s lives a…
Global Population on Track to Reach 11 Billion by 2100, Researchers Say
Yale Environment 360,
A new analysis of United Nations global population data finds an 80-percent probability that the number of …
Earth’s Population Could Reach 12.3 Billion by 2100, Scientists Say
Sci-News.com,
A team of researchers led by Dr John Wilmoth of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs announced yesterday in the…
Human Population Predicted To Reach 12 Billion By 2100
I Fucking Love Science,
Environment Photo credit: Michael Coté, "Earth at Night," via Flickr. CC BY 2.0 At 7.2 billion, the human…
UN population growth data is bad news for climate
Climate News Network,
Watch this space: a crowded market in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous countryImage: Zouzou Wizman via Wikimedia…
La población mundial llegará a 11.000 millones de personas a finales de este siglo
Tendencias 21. Ciencia, tecnología, sociedad y cultura,
Un equipo de demógrafos y expertos en estadística de la ONU y de Estados Unidos afirma que la población mundial no solo no se…
2014年09月19日《科学》杂志精选
生物360最新文章,
一种可增加脐带血中干细胞数的分子、作用对立的化学物质可平衡情绪、
The World's Population Is Unlikely To Stabilize This Century
io9,
Contrary to previous projections, it now appears that the world's population is unlikely to stop growing this century. There's…
World Population Won't Stabilize This Century After All
Discover Top Stories,
It’s no secret that the world’s population is growing. The 7.2 billion humans currently on Earth may represent only a fraction…
World population to keep growing this century, hit 11 billion by 2100
UW Today,
Using modern statistical tools, a new study led by the University of Washington and the United Nations finds that world…
Boom! Earth’s Population Could Hit 12 Billion by 2100
Wired Science,
Earth is fast becoming a more crowded place — and it may become more crowded than expected. According to a new projection of…