We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the human population grow, and what does that mean for climate change, resource use, and biodiversity?). Studying population growth also helps ...

This event will be discussing the findings of the report and the linkages between population growth, socioeconomic development and environmental change. The human population has experienced a ...

Human population growth over the past 10,000 years: The graph shows that the human population is increasing every year. This is because the number of births each year is much greater than the ...

This increase can be clearly seen in a graph of human population. better health care so people are living longer new medicines are being developed so people don’t die of previously fatal ...

Human population growth and consumption, energy use, land use changes, and pollution are driving forces of global change. How do these factors impact ecological systems and human societies?