UNITED NATIONS — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new ...

On the occasion of World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, the Vatican news agency Fides presented statistics ...

The world population grew by 75 million people over the last year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday ...

I am a reporter on the breaking news team based in New York City. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the world population will be 8,019,876,189 on January 1—an almost 1% increase of 75,162,541 people ...

Once endangered, the global green sea turtle population is rebounding, according to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Great white sharks, as scary as we’re led to believe, are incredibly important. For years now, their overall numbers have been declining — but “overall” doesn’t mean that they’re declining everywhere.

Nearly 700 million people around the world are classified as living in extreme poverty, surviving on less than USD2.15 per ...

The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday ...