The respected Our World in Data estimates global population at just 5mn 12,000 years ago, 230mn in the year zero, 1bn in 1800, 3bn in 1960 and 8bn today. As for the future, the UN forecasts a global ...

Billions of birds that once filled North American skies have disappeared, and new science shows they are disappearing faster than ever.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Mexico was one of five states in the U.S. that lost population last year as the U.S. growth rate dramatically slowed. While ...

A new study finds North American bird populations keep dropping, and that decline is speeding up for many species.

The United States has enjoyed some level of population growth virtually every year for more than a century. But that doesn't mean every state is always growing in lockstep. Here's a for-instance: ...

The Trump administration's immigration crackdown appears to be having a noticeable impact on U.S. population trends. Growth in the population slowed dramatically last year, according to new figures ...

Reindeer populations across the Arctic will likely decline substantially due to climate change in the next several decades with the North American population facing the highest risk, researchers ...

Consecutive population declines are threatening to impact growth and weaken the island’s tax base, the head of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has warned. Marico Thomas, the chamber president, also ...

According to a new study by the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) and the National University of Colombia, chronic ocean warming is driving a nearly 20% annual decline in fish biomass.

In Wisconsin and nationwide, population growth slowed in 2025 amid a significant decline in international migration.