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Sharks Could Be the Future of the Seafood Industry
Earlier this month, a great white shark named Julia arrived in Massachusetts. While she's likely the first one to hit the Cape this year, the species' has surging numbers that beg the question of overpopulation. Great whites are still out of bounds for...
There Are Way More Great White Sharks in the Pacific Than Previously Thought
There's still plenty wrong with the ever-more acidic, ever more plastic-filled sea, but it appears that great white sharks are doing okay.
Zimbabwe Official: Fewer Condoms Means More Soldiers
A top government official warned that Zimbabwe will not have enough people to be soldiers if they keep using condoms.
Furloughed Federal Employees Could Fill These Places
An Americana tour of the towns you could replace with shutdown-rendered stay-at-home government workers.
Three 'Radical' Graphs Tell the Story of the Planet's Current and Future Population
Behold the future of a crowded, climate-changed earth, rendered in purple lines.
Rising Crop Yields Are Not Enough to Feed 9.6 Billion People
And we're a long way off from doubling the amount of food we produce.
Population Growth Alone Will Force a Wealth of Species Towards Extinction
In the words of the report authors, the "outlook is grim."
Prepare for Even More Humans: The UN Revised Its Population Growth Forecast for 2050
The revision is based upon higher-than-expected fertility levels in a number of high-growth countries.
Is This How We Equalize the United States?
Is this map of 50 new, equally populated states the solution for political gerrymandering?
Poop-Eating Worms Power the Eco-Toilets of the Future
We’ve got seven billion people on this planet, and a whole lot more coming. While we worry about where all those people are going to live, and what they’re going to eat and drink, it’s not often that we think about where they’re going to poop.
Will the U.S. Ever Get Serious About the Biodiversity Crisis?
Twenty years ago at the Rio Earth Summit, 150 countries signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, which was meant to lay out guidelines, based on the U.N.‘s Agenda 21, for sustainable development and the protection of the world’s valuable...