Population populism: How redundant is UP’s two-child policy?

The recent UP Population Policy aims to reduce the state’s current total fertility rate, which is 2.7, and bring it down to 2.1 

Out of control

Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth

Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan discusses ageing and death in new book

A restricted diet and proper sleep may play a key role in a long and healthy life

What Cairo did not discuss

A desperate need for hard cash

Restrictions won't curb population growth

New policy skirts hard issues

Stagnant numbers

Come stamp on my toes

More people, more heat

UNITED NATIONS

RICE RIGOURS

Tiger under threat

CENSUS PLANNED

The best myth

Health needs political commitment

Young art: A head full of dreams

Gobar Times and Green Schools Programme conducted a five-day environment e-summer camp from June 1 to June 5, 2020. Sessions on story-telling, …

Temperature increase could accelerate rise in antibiotic resistance

Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists 

Penguin fight: understanding animal contest behaviour in five easy steps

The battles seen in a recent viral video and the BBC's Planet Earth II documentary are just a glimpse of the contests that take place throughout …

At least 420 million hectares forest lost since 1990: Survey

Impact of agricultural expansion on global deforestation almost 90%, says FRA remote-sensing survey

Addis Ababa faces growing climate change risks like heat, drought and floods, study warns

Increase in the city’s population will be absorbed by informal settlements, the prime destination for most migrants

Kuno plans to electrify enclosure fence to prevent leopard-cheetah conflict

Current is sufficient enough to give an electric shock to the leopards but not strong enough to kill them

Increasing population puts pressure on land and water too: UNCCD

Demand of water for agricultural purposes will double by 2050 due to increasing demands for food

The declining infant mortality rate indicates that our growth rate will decline further

Amulya Ratna Nanda, registrar-general and census commissioner of India, feels the country has made some progress in bringing down its growth rate

World population touches 7 billion

Ten billionth baby likely by end of the century if population growth continues at current rate