Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Something unusual is happening across large swaths of the world. Maternity wards are quieter than they've ever been. Villages are ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. As birth rates decline in the U.S. and throughout the world, voices from Silicon ...

The warning has already been published. It sits in a scientific journal, written in careful academic language, and it says something no headline wants to print: civilization as we know it may not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DNA from a Stone Age tomb near Paris points to collapse, migration and a social reset around 3000 BC. (CREDIT: Getty Images / ...

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe's population in late Neolithic times—from around 5,600 to 4,000 years ago? In Europe, the Neolithic is part of the Stone Age, ...

May 13, 2026: The Chinese population is shrinking and is now somewhere between 700 and 800 million. The official claim is 1.4 billion and the government claims that it was 1.5 billion 12 years ago.

The human population of Earth could collapse and be cut in half in just 40 years if the conditions on the planet change, according to a chilling new doomsday study. The research – published in Chaos, ...