Across the globe, annual waste production could increase by 50% by 2050 if countries continue with their "business as usual" approach to waste management, according to the World Bank's new What a ...

A doctor breaks down the latest WHO report on cancer and explains why inequities, and not science, could be the biggest threat to the increased cancer burden globally.

Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau: India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around 2025. The U.S. will remain exactly where it is now: in third ...

Major glaciers across the world, including those in the Dolomites in Italy, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the U.S., will be gone by 2050 even if global emissions ...

According to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) by 2050, the global population is anticipated to grow to over 9 billion, which is likely to increase pressure ...

The current world population of 7.3 billion is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to the “World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision”, ...

Climate change could force 216 million people across six world regions to migrate within their countries by 2050, with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for 86 million, a World Bank report says. It said ...

Global cancer cases are projected to nearly double by 2050. Here's why U.S. trends look different — and which states have the ...

The World Bank Group President, Ajay Banga, has said that Nigeria’s population will increase by 130 million by the year 2050. In his remarks yesterday at the 2025 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings ...

World Nuclear Association and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, with support from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Atoms4NetZero and the UK government, have launched the Net Zero ...

Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, a large new study said Tuesday. The research published in ...