One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...

Global growth is projected at 3.1 percent in 2024 and 3.2 percent in 2025, with the 2024 forecast 0.2 percentage point higher than that in the October 2023 World Economic Outlook (WEO) on account of ...

World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...

Did you know there are seven massive landmasses on Earth called continents? These include Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Each one has its own ...

Europe has seen 10 of its warmest years since 2007, with heat set to worsen as the continent warms twice as fast as the global average Pace of warming in Europe accelerated over past 2 decades, with ...

Hollywood actor Will Smith travelled across Antarctica with former Wales rugby star turned global adventurer Richard Parks as his guide, in a new series which sees him visit all seven continents.

On NATO’s Eastern Flank, low-grade Russian attacks are ramping up. WSJ’s Matthew Luxmoore goes inside Lithuania’s efforts to build defenses and train citizens for war as fears of a full-scale conflict ...