China's leadership is eager to reverse the trend, as the soaring number of elderly citizens is expected to increase the burden on families and strain the country's social welfare systems, sapping ...

Fertility rates are dropping worldwide, prompting experts to argue that a shrinking population could threaten society’s ...

Three straight years of wet winters appear to be benefitting water bird species in California with some species showing a ...

Hispanic, Asian and multiracial residents drove population growth in the United States last year, and 16 states would have lost population without gains in those groups, according to a new analysis ...

The global fertility rate was 2.2 births per woman last year, down from five in the 1960s and 3.3 in 1990, according to the ...

New Jersey’s homeless population is the highest it’s been in a decade, according to a newly released statewide survey. NJCounts — a one day “point-in-time tally” conducted on Jan. 28 — found 13,748 ...

Not to be confused with the Pacific halibut, the California halibut is a flounder — a type of flatfish — that lives on the ...

Currently, Wang says the country isn't facing a serious aging issue, partially because the immigration of younger people to ...

The Empire State has lost 1.7 million people and $111 billion in gross income from residents moving to other states in the ...