June 1, 2020 | Articles
Egypt’s Population Reaches 100 Million The population of Egypt reached 100 million in February, straining resources in a country where 8 percent of the territory contains 97 percent of the inhabitants. With the population growing by 2.5 million each year and 6 in 10 people under the age of 29,…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
This has been the darkest of springs, with endless cascades of devastating news. When so many are suffering such terrible losses, it seems right and proper to pay tribute to the characters, talents, and achievements of those who have left our midst. I found myself thinking of wonderful Population Connection…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Two days after abortion providers in Texas asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take emergency action concerning abortion access in Texas, the federal appeals court that had allowed restrictions on abortion to take effect backed down. The surprise move spares the Supreme Court—at least for the moment—from having to decide…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
All any of us are reading or talking about these days is the novel coronavirus wreaking havoc across the globe. The Democratic Primary? Harry and Meghan ditching their royal crowns and leaving England? Those stories have been replaced with articles about unemployment benefits, DIY protective masks, and how ineffectively we’ve…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Social Distancing Not Stopping Our Work With Teachers In a typical spring, PopEd staff would be crisscrossing the country, facilitating workshops with current and future teachers on campuses, in K-12 schools, and at conference centers. In mid-March, these plans, along with everyone else’s plans everywhere, came to a screeching halt.…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Just weeks before our annual Capitol Hill Days conference, the first cases of COVID-19 began to present in the United States. In a matter of days, those few cases turned into hundreds, and then thousands, throughout the country. In the face of the rapidly spreading virus, we made the necessary…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
You might think that in the midst of a terrifying worldwide pandemic and resulting global economic meltdown politicians would be too busy to meddle with abortion rights. You would be wrong. All across the country, as the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted every aspect of life and pushed millions of people…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by LiveScience on November 25, 2013 In mid-April 2009, samples from two California children suffering from the flu arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further investigation; something didn’t seem normal about the particular flu strains they had. Local clinics and flu surveillance…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by The Nation on February 18, 2020 Scientists have fingered bats and pangolins as potential sources of the virus, but the real blame lies elsewhere—with human assaults on the environment. It could have been a pangolin. Or a bat. Or, as one now-debunked theory that made the rounds…...
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June 1, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by Ensia on March 17, 2020 As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the novel coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics. Mayibout 2 is not a healthy place. The 150 or so people who live in the village, which sits on the south bank…...
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