Something unusual is happening across large swaths of the world. Maternity wards are quieter than they’ve ever been. Villages ...

Across Europe, Asia and the Americas, declining states are reaching for the gun. The pattern is older than it looks, and the demographers have seen it before. The polite version of the story is that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DNA from a Stone Age tomb near Paris points to collapse, migration and a social reset around 3000 BC. (CREDIT: Getty Images / ...

Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

The human population of Earth could collapse and be cut in half in just 40 years if the conditions on the planet change, according to a chilling new doomsday study. The research – published in Chaos, ...

Rogan marveled at how he had a conversation with the same expert on this crisis five years ago, and yet very few people have sounded the alarm or taken action since then, despite the fact that the ...

At some point in everyone’s teenage years of schooling we were all taught in a nature or biology class about cycles of population surges and then inevitable population collapses. Whether the example ...

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates in the United States are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. Read from CU expert Leslie Root ...