A new report investigates the enormous challenge of feeding our rapidly growing population without further damaging our environment and worsening climate change. [UPDATE: Since this story was written, another major...| Population Matters
There are many things we can do as individuals to reduce the harm we do to our planet, and even help to regenerate it. Learn more.| Population Matters
The drivers of poverty and inequality include economic and political structures which favour those who are already wealthy. Learn more.| Population Matters
Some people say there are too many people, others say there are too few. What are the facts about world population? And does it matter?| Population Matters
Nature is under critical pressure. One million species are threatened with extinction. Human propulation drives the biodiversity crisis.| Population Matters
Nature is under critical pressure. One million species are threatened with extinction. Human propulation drives the biodiversity crisis.| Population Matters
Drought and desertification are the worst environmental crises facing the world today. Our new report Dried Up Futures examines how these interconnected disasters are driven by population growth, and the urgent need to act now to save our future.| Population Matters
There are more than 8 billion people on planet Earth & we add one billion more every 12-15 years, which will probably continue until the 2080s| Population Matters
In the last 50 years use of resources has tripled, as the world’s population has grown from 3.6 billion people in 1970 to over 8 billion.| Population Matters