The co-signing organizations sent a letter with detailed questions about Egypt’s detainee population on December 15, 2022, and January 19, 2023, to the Interior Ministry, the Office of the ...

Noted public figures like David Attenborough have previously claimed that human evolution is over, but many researchers studying human evolution firmly disagree. We know that humans have altered ...

The Stern Review, the U.K. government’s premier report on the economics of climate change, assumed a 0.1-percent risk of human extinction every year. That may sound low, but it adds up when ...

Human Numbers Through Time. By Susan K. Lewis; Posted 04.20.04; NOVA; For most of human existence our ancestors led precarious lives as scavengers, hunters, and gatherers, and there were fewer ...

The world’s massive human population is levelling off. Most projections show we’ll hit peak humanity in the 21st century, as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over ...

The population of early humans dwindled to around 1,280 individuals during a time of dramatic climate change and remained that small for about 117,000 years, the study said.

The human population could reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and peak at around 10.4 billion during the 2080s and remain at that level until 2100, the UN estimated.

After peaking in 2080 at 10.13 billion, the dataset shows a population decline by the year 2100 to 9.88 billion. Researchers note that in the next 30 years, more than 60% of the population will ...