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 America's Fastest-Dying Cities

Ohio and Michigan feel the worst of nation's woes

Forbes Forbes 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 Youngstown, Ohio Flint, Mich. Scranton, Pa. Dayton, Ohio More »

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






 World Pop. to Hit 7B by 2012


Increased 1B in 13 years

Associated Press Associated Press 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 nations join the work force, the growth rate is expected to slow—eventually to .5% by 2050. More »

More about:  China • India • immigration • Census Bureau • overpopulation • human population • Brookings Institution

Phone Data Used to Map Human Activity

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

BBC BBC 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 daily, with few going more than 50 miles on a regular basis. More »

More about:  cell phones • research • economics • population • avian flu • human population

Cougar's Long Trek to Chicago May Tell Tale

Cat likely from SD may yield clues about human overpopulation

Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune 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 how animals like it adjust to human populations, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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

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