Meeting the twin challenges of sustainably feeding close to 10 billion people and slowing global warming by 2050 is a major ...

Brazil will be the fifth largest economy in the world in 2050, going past Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Much of its growth will be driven by its wealth in natural resources and a young ...

The new data sheet from the Washington, D.C.-based organization is chock full of statistics on how global population will morph over the next 34 years, shrinking on some continents and exploding on ...

The future scares a lot of people. Climate change, a growing population, and fewer natural resources will certainly pose new challenges for the human race in the next few decades. But when you ...

Economists haven't come to a consensus on what's in store for the global economy next year. Europe is in turmoil, China seems to be slowing, and the U.S. political system is a mess. However, there is ...

As the world marks UN World Cities Day on 31 October—a call to make cities more sustainable—a new international study ...

(Editor’s note: Each story has two sections, the first reflecting the present and the second imagining the world of 2050.) 2019: I went looking for people who’ve mapped out this world without ...

According to the results of the UN 2015 World Population Revision, the world population reached 7.3 billion as of mid-2015, implying that the world has added approximately one billion people in the ...

Meet "Sedentary Sam": he suffers from digital eye strain, tech neck, early aging, varicose veins, swelling and a sunken face.

China will be the largest economy in the world by 2050, holding at least 20% share of the global GDP according to projections made by PwC in its report titled The World in 2050. China is currently ...

But despite our technological advances, humanity has failed to solve many of its problems. The world hasn't weaned itself off fossil fuels or antibiotics, protected the rain forest, or reduced the ...