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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: human population

human population stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - The jump in human ingenuity during the Stone Age could have resulted not from a biological change but from closer, more populous communities, NPR reports. “Anything that we teach is going to be susceptible to loss, or to decay,” said the British scientist who cooked up the theory.... More »

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evolution • human intelligence • University College London • scientific study • human population • Stone Age • population density

Analysis

 Watch Out World, 
 You're Going Gray 

Aging, population decline mark next decades

Jan 4, 09 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Wall Street's a wreck and terrorists are clamoring for WMDs, but the world's real crisis is far worse: It's getting old, Neil Howe and Richard Jackson write in the Washington Post. By the 2020s, baby boomers will push the median age in Western Europe and Japan to near 50,... More »

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United States • aging • youth • extremism • old age • developed countries • human population • seniors • demographic trends

 America's Fastest-Dying Cities

Ohio and Michigan feel the worst of nation's woes

Aug 12, 08 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - America’s Rust Belt continues to corrode a little more each day, reports Forbes in its analysis of the nation’s fastest-dying cities. Cities in Ohio and Michigan take 6 of the top 10 spots in the survey, which is based on population flight and unemployment:
  • Canton, Ohio
... More »

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Cleveland • General Motors • Ohio • Michigan • Ford • urban poverty • Canton, Ohio • human population • Dayton, Ohio • Buffalo






 World Pop. to Hit 7B by 2012


Increased 1B in 13 years

Jun 20, 08 2:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's soaring population is expected to hit 7 billion by 2012, further straining thinly stretched natural resources, AP reports. The current population is 6.7 billion, and growing at 1.2% a year, spurred by increasing medical and nutritional advances in developing countries. But as more women in developing... More »

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China • immigration • India • Census Bureau • Brookings Institution • overpopulation • human population • Population Reference Bureau • National Center for Health Statistics

Phone Data Used to Map Human Activity

Study, outside US,
finds ingrained habits, raises privacy issues

Jun 4, 08 3:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers using mobile-phone data to study patterns of human movement find that we're quite creatures of habit, the BBC reports. The 100,000 randomly selected subjects—outside the US, where such tracking would be illegal, the AP notes—remained mostly in the same small area, traveling less than 6½ miles... More »

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cell phones • economics • research • population • avian flu • human population

Cougar's Long Trek to Chicago May Tell Tale

Cat likely from SD may yield clues about human overpopulation

May 1, 08 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A cougar shot April 14 in Chicago was spotted earlier in Wisconsin, DNA tests show, suggesting an epic trek. Now, scientists are eager to study the animal, hoping to learn more about how and why it migrated; they aim to pin down its ancestry in an effort to better understand... More »

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Wisconsin • Chicago • science • migration • South Dakota • biology • overpopulation • human population • cougar

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