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China's population decline
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What will China's population drop mean for the world?

BBC Future answers five key questions about China's recent population decline and what it might mean for global demographic trends.
Elon Musk predicts population collapse

Elon Musk is totally wrong about population collapse

Tesla’s outspoken CEO thinks the biggest threat facing the planet is people not having enough babies. Demographers disagree.
Opinion: Billionaires 'kvetching' about population collapse
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Opinion: Billionaires 'kvetching' about population collapse

The world population is unlikely to collapse soon, and the imagined demographic outcome of some billionaires is by no means the greatest risk to the future of civilization.
Opinion: Let's fully fund international family planning on World Population Day
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Opinion: Let's fully fund international family planning on World Population Day

Today is World Population Day — a day first observed in 1989, when there were slightly more than 5 billion people on Earth.

Despite massive effort, spotted owl populations at an all-time low

Despite massive effort, spotted owl populations at an all-time low

A threatened owl could disappear from much of its range unless old-growth forests are protected and invasive barred owls are controlled.

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Jade S. Sasser: The complex link between population decline and a warming planet
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Jade S. Sasser: The complex link between population decline and a warming planet

Despite slower population growth, we are still speeding toward environmental catastrophe, with greenhouse gas emissions all over the planet rising steadily.
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