7 Billion: What to expect when you’re expanding—a special series
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International family planning saves lives. So why is the GOP cutting it?
The GOP is committed to rolling back women's health rights that have made families and societies stronger across the developing world.
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How environmental and women’s groups can work together
Green groups and women's health advocates used to butt heads over population, but they're increasingly finding common ground in their support for family planning.
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Women’s rights are key to slowing population growth
The best way to slow growth is ensuring that people can make choices about childbearing. But fertility rates remain high where women's status is low.
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Women, population, and the age of the ‘Black Swan’
World population doubled in the last half-century to nearly 7 billion people. To address population growth, we need to advance and secure women's rights.
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Population math explained: Growth rate is down, total is up [VIDEO]
Over the past 50 years, the growth rate of the global population has slowed, but our overall numbers keep going up and up. Check out video explainers.
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Come and get your Endangered Species Condoms
The Center for Biological Diversity wants to give away 100,000 Endangered Species Condoms this fall. Wanna help?
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Will my baby be the 7 billionth?
Born in the U.S., my child will be one of the most voracious consumers on the planet. But to apologize for this seems to signal a loss of hope.
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I am the population problem
Population growth tends to get blamed on other people. But actually the population problem is all about me: white, middle-class, American me.
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7 billion in 7 minutes: Science magazine explains it all [VIDEO]
"Science" magazine took the good bits from its recent special issue on population and squished them into this handy video.
