The world’s human population reached 8 billion people this year. Just 35 years ago, it hit 5 million. The rate of increased population is clearly unsustainable on many fronts. Overpopulation has ...

The definition of overpopulation is in the name: An area that’s beyond capacity to handle the material needs of the people living in it. Less than 1 billion people walked this planet in the mid-18th ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . "Many of today's most-respected thinkers, from Stephen Hawking to David Attenborough, argue that our efforts to fight climate change and other ...

Scientists have reported it for decades: overpopulation can impair reproduction. Crowded chickens lay fewer eggs. Crowded mice have smaller broods. In humans, several studies have associated increased ...

Overpopulation actually is not the cause of the world’s environmental woes. To say so would be to deny the notion that humans can live sustainably. Nevertheless, the idea that the world is ...

News footage these days sometimes shows wild horses crowding dry rangelands in the American West or deer wandering through suburban streets, highlighting the growing problem of wildlife overpopulation ...

I always enjoy Thomas Friedman’s columns, however, the ecotourism solution offered in the July 31 column, which was about Madagascar, missed the whole point. The root of the problems of environmental ...

This is in response to the Aug. 31 letter entitled, "Look at history: Overpopulation not always the problem." In view of the author's attitude toward population control, the title should have had the ...

Sunday's editorial, "Time's up for climate change deniers," left out something very important: overpopulation. As Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." ...

In a recent op-ed by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears in The New York Times and picked up by The Salt Lake Tribune, “Don’t expect depopulation to solve our problems,” the authors contend that ...