Tired of all those election maps? Here’s a new map to look at: This one shows grades given to the 50 states for their progressiveness (or regressiveness) on reproductive health and rights. A report card put out by the Population... 

Jason DeParle has a long article in The New York Times on how single motherhood is expanding in the American middle class and bringing financial troubles along with it. He focuses on two friends who work together at a daycare center:... 

Contraception: It saves lives and it’s not slutty. Any questions? (Photo: Gates Foundation) Melinda Gates will celebrate World Population Day by avoiding saying the word “population,” and at the same time doing more... 

Paul Ehrlich. Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic 1968 book The Population Bomb , now refers to himself as a “mobster.” Okay, so the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere — the MAHB — is not exactly an... 

Photo by U.K. Department for International Development . The outcome document for this week’s Rio+20 summit is 49 pages long. Some 23,917 words. Women were mentioned in less than 0.01 percent of the text. And only two of the 283... 

Photo by Krissy Venosdale . Four and a half billion years is a hard number to digest. That’s the age of the Earth, and a lot has happened in that time. The geologic record contains dramatic climate swings, the formation of entire... 

Photo by Krissy Venosdale . Four and a half billion years is a hard number to digest. That’s the age of the Earth, and a lot has happened in that time. The geologic record contains dramatic climate swings, the formation of entire... 

Photo by Krissy Venosdale . Four and a half billion years is a hard number to digest. That’s the age of the Earth, and a lot has happened in that time. The geologic record contains dramatic climate swings, the formation of entire... 

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The Government of Bangladesh recently declared three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwater dolphins in the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem – the Sundarbans, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)... 

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On the small Antarctic island of Macquarie, between New Zealand and Antarctica, there was once a population of roughly 3 million king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus). About one hundred years ago, this penguin colony, known as a...