There is a growing consensus that environmental problems, particularly the effects of climate change, pose a grave challenge to humanity. Pollution, habitat destruction, intractable waste issues and, ...

THE SPECTACLE of some 100 heads of state and 50,000 conferees gathering these past two weeks in Johannesburg for a fractious and even raucous U.N. summit on sustainable development may have left the ...

Last week Singapore's government published a statistic that underscores a growing challenge in the country. The average number of children being born there has fallen to a record low. And, in fact, ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. If population issues were like steel production, China would be making ...

Think of global population problems and you might think of the growing number of people in the world – currently about 8 billion – and our collective toll on the planet. But due to people having fewer ...

BRISTOL − State and town officials are encouraged by a program that has expanded deer hunting onto town-owned property in Bristol, saying it helped reduce the number of collisions between deer and ...

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