The seventh edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors ...

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

China is attempting one of the most ambitious climate and land restoration projects on Earth, turning a swath of its arid north into a living barrier of trees to hold back encroaching sand. The ...

A demographic transformation in Africa has the potential to alter the world order Last November, the global population reached a significant milestone of 8 billion. More recently, in April, India ...

GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan says people around the world are struggling with the rising cost of living, but he adds that "people ...

We asked prominent media figures to read the present—and try to predict the future. Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Journalism is at a uniquely vulnerable point in its history. To name just a ...

Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results, ...

This sun-soaked, relatively affordable destination in Europe is the best place in the world to retire next year, experts say.

Boomers enjoyed the security of pensions and booming home values, while Gen X has navigated a landscape of debt and economic uncertainty. Millennials, often facing stagnant wages and rising costs, ...

More than 5,500 toxic and hazardous sites across the United States are projected to be at risk of coastal flooding as a result of rising sea levels by 2100, with nearly 3,800 facing similar danger as ...