Scientists seeking to restore New York Harbor’s oyster population are encountering a problem – about half of the bivalves they place in the water die. New York City's waters once teemed with oysters, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With U.S. fertility rates at a record low, some people and politicians think that having more babies is the answer to the ...

Indian women have been urged to have a minimum of two children in a bid to reverse plummeting birth rates and boost the population. N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is the chief minister of the Andhra ...

Justice Dixit, who authored the verdict, quoted former British PM Winston Churchill’s lines as saying, “India is not a nation, but a mere population.” ...

Historical fears of overpopulation have shifted to modern concerns about declining birth rates in developed nations. The U.S. fertility rate has fallen below the "replacement rate," threatening ...

Birth rates have dropped faster than life expectancy has increased, causing slower population growth around the world. Forecasts from the United Nations predict that world population will actually ...

The U.S. fertility rate — the average number of children each woman gives birth to — fell 22% between 1990 and 2023, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...

Once again, there will be no sturgeon retention season in the lower Columbia River this year. It’s the fourth year in a row that Washington and Oregon have needed to make that decision.

DEMOGRAPHERS and economists, academic cousins in the lineage from Malthus, carry forward the somber tradition in the literature dealing with underdeveloped countries. In current expositions, the rapid ...

For years, Bermudians have watched the feral chicken population grow from a nuisance into a full-blown environmental and agricultural problem. The public have been asked to report large feral chicken ...

The U.S. fertility rate — the average number of children each woman gives birth to — fell 22% between 1990 and 2023, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...