Environment / Population
Articles about Population, ordered by date. 
Hitting the population brakes
Popular wisdom has it that everything is speeding up, including population growth. Danny Dorling shows just how wrong that is – and argues that we are actually in a time of slowdown.
The debate: Is concern about population growth exaggerated?
What’s happening to human numbers – and what should happen – is a hot topic again. Mohan Rao and Sara Parkin go head to head.
![Three-year-old Kholod is admitted to hospital in Hudaida, Yemen suffering from severe acute malnutrition.* One of five children, her father is a teacher but he has not been paid for a year. Extreme hunger and disease are killing around 130 children every day in Yemen, according to Save the Children. [*We would not normally use a picture like this one in New Internationalist, but we felt that at a time when humanitarianism is under attack, it was important to show what is at stake, especially in an article that makes clear that famine is not just bad luck, it's political – ed.]Photo: Giles Clarke, UN OCHA / Getty Images](https://ddhfs03kp1zcg.cloudfront.net/uploads/image/4968/threehundred_511-how-can-famines-be-ended-1.jpg "Three-year-old Kholod is admitted to hospital in Hudaida, Yemen suffering from severe acute malnutrition.* One of five children, her father is a teacher but he has not been paid for a year. Extreme hunger and disease are killing around 130 children every day in Yemen, according to Save the Children. [*We would not normally use a picture like this one in New Internationalist, but we felt that at a time when humanitarianism is under attack, it was important to show what is at stake, especially in an article that makes clear that famine is not just bad luck, it's political – ed.]Photo: Giles Clarke, UN OCHA / Getty Images")
How can famines be ended?
Mass starvation is making a comeback as a weapon of war. To tackle this great evil we must stop talking about food and over-population, and engage with the politics, argues Alex de Waal.
Race science rears its ugly head
Racism disguised as academic research must be robustly challenged, argues Gavin Evans.
Girls not allowed
Vanessa Baird examines what sex selection is doing to women – and the world.
Who profits from the 7 billion population frenzy?
Vanessa Baird on why, when it comes to human numbers, nothing sells like fear.
The missing pieces
Is hell really other people? Vanessa Baird concludes with some sobering facts and reflections on equality.
Population and climate change
Jonathon Porritt and the Corner House offer two very different perspectives on one of the big debates of the day.
Frontline Bangladesh
Some Pacifc islands are already being evacuated. Bangladesh stands next in the climate change frontline. The difference is, it has a massive and growing population.
Too many people?
Vanessa Baird wonders why the demographers aren’t panicking.
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