We’ve added a billion people in just 12 years. The implications for the planet—and our own welfare—hinge on how we tackle climate change. On the eve of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights ...

What's True. Earth's population is estimated to be roughly 8 billion people, according to the United Nations. Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more ...

Estimates suggest that the current human population stands at 8.2 billion people. However, a researcher says that this number might be wrong and is not an accurate count of the human population on ...

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday.

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

For those who see every additional human being as one more consuming, carbon-emitting unit on a hot and crowded planet that is already well past its carrying capacity, the idea of 8 billion people ...

The more than 6 billion people on this planet who are economically challenged may get a sneak preview of the attractions just by looking at wealthy and expensive California. California, with its 40 ...

To investigate, they used data on 307 dam projects in 35 countries, including China, Brazil, Australia and Poland, all completed between 1980 and 2010, taking the number of people reported as ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

As per Forbes, in April 2025, there were only 15 people alive with more than $100 billion in the bank, and every one of them had a story that was as wild as their net worth. These names are ...

We could be severely undercounting the number of humans living on Earth, researchers suggest. While the United Nations has determined that as of last summer, there were about 8.2 billion humans ...