In a long-anticipated decision that will affect millions of women’s ability to pay for contraception, the Obama administration announced that it would not allow religiously affiliated employers such as universities and hospitals to deny full birth control coverage to the women they employ. Under the new rule, set forth by the Affordable Care Act, most…
British theoretical physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking says the colonization of outer space is key to the survival of humankind, predicting it will be difficult for the world’s inhabitants to avoid disaster in the next hundred years.
In many parts of Africa, people already scramble to obtain food, land, and water, and discontent provides fertile ground for extremism. So it is important to think carefully about the response to Africa’s exploding population. Early next year, researchers will publish findings that provide good, if surprising, news: relaxed, trusting, and frank conversations between men…
To Joel Cohen, a professor of populations at Columbia, whether the Earth will be able to sustain 7 billion humans, 9 billion or 10 billion will “depend on choices we and future generations make.”
Netherlands director Walther Grotenhuis, in his first independent documentary, focuses on the worldwide journey some foods experience to get to your local supermarket. In doing so, he addresses a fundamental flaw in uncontrolled agricultural expansion—the environmental impacts that over-cultivated crops and foods cause to the local ecosystems.
The world population will hit 7 billion on Halloween this year, according to a guesstimate from the United Nations. So, should you be scared?
Experts speakers argue their cases.
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.