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Population

March 2025
  • The world’s staple crops such as wheat, maize and rice are under threat from pervasive particles.

    Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

    Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades
February 2025
  • Barcelona street scene at night

    Today in Focus
    Can Spain make immigration a vote-winner? – podcast

  • A South Korea woman with her baby on her lap.

    South Korea birthrate rises for first time in nine years amid surge in marriages

  • A busy Barcelona street at night

    How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar

  • Europe immigration - Trail pic 5000x3000

    Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised

  • Settled, industrious, essential: it’s time we saw immigration as a British success story

    Martha Gill

  • It’s clear Britain can’t survive without immigration. Now Labour must convince voters

    Simon Jenkins
January 2025
  • Lord Frost pictured in 2021

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ex-Tory Brexit minister Lord Frost rejects party’s claims over Europe-wide customs scheme – as it happened

  • Busy high street filled with people, and a London bus on the road

    UK population exceeds that of France for first time on record, ONS data shows

  • John B Calhoun in 1971 with his Utopia 25 mouse experiment. Photograph: Stan Wayman/The Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock

    The Audio Long Read
    The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia – podcast

  • Baby Remi. First baby of 2025

    Baby Remi, among the first born of new Beta generation, arrives in Australia just minutes after new year

December 2024
  • Jeff Goldblum portrait with orange flowers. Photographer: David Vintiner

    Weekend
    Revisited: actor Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; and America’s top pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world – podcast

  • A boy unwraps presents

    Making sense of it
    It’s been a grim year for baby-making. But what can the Christmas story teach us about having a child?

    Justine Toh
November 2024

  • It's complicated
    How having babies became so political - video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates efforts around the world to boost birth rates, as well as the underlying political motivations, from bodily autonomy to immigration
  • John B Calhoun in 1971 with his Utopia 25 mouse experiment.

    The long read
    The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia

    The long read: John Calhoun designed an apartment complex for mice, to examine the effects of overcrowding. It was hailed as a groundbreaking study of social breakdown, but is largely forgotten. So what happened?
  • Baby on the Move

    Fertility crisis
    The global fertility crisis: are fewer babies a good or a bad thing? Experts are divided

    The UK’s fertility rate is at an all-time low, and many other countries face similar declines, creating ageing populations. But can ecological benefits of fewer people outweigh social problems created?
October 2024
  • Parents with their children walk in the Sanlitun area of Beijing, China.

    China’s kindergarten numbers shrink as policymakers struggle to arrest falling birthrate

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Do you want kids? It’s finally OK to simply say no

    Eva Wiseman
  • a woman in a pink suit speaks in the Duma in front of some mics

    Russia seeks to ban ‘propaganda’ promoting childfree lifestyles

  • Baby

    Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years

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