U.S. births slightly decreased in 2025. That's according to new provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

"Temperature and sex ratios at birth," a new study led by researchers at the Department of Sociology at the University of ...

Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

In step with global and national trends, Milwaukee logged its lowest number of births on record in 2025, with just over 7,300 babies born in the city last year. As of Jan. 5, Milwaukee had recorded ...

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

A total of 818 crimes against journalists or media were reported to Germany's investigative federal police force between April 2024 and November 2025. Just over 10% of them were violent in nature. A ...

Modelling suggests 5.4m children under five among those who could die if budgets of donor countries such as UK and US continue to be slashed Aid cuts could lead to more than 22 million avoidable ...

For years, guidance for correcting sodium levels in patients hospitalized with severe hyponatremia — defined as serum sodium concentration < 120 mEq/L — has been to go slow, in part to avoid ...

A South Korean official who suggested the country "import young women" from "Vietnam or Sri Lanka" to boost its birth-rate has been expelled from his party. Kim Hee-soo, the head of the southern Jindo ...