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November 12, 2025 | Post

Elephants are fascinating, highly intelligent, and emotionally complex creatures — their disappearance would be a devastating tragedy. The gentle giants’ slide towards extinction must be halted, but we cannot save them without addressing the figurative elephant in the room: our growing human population. If you’re an animal lover like me,…...

October 31, 2025 | Post

Our environment is rapidly deteriorating while political leaders are increasingly deprioritizing environmental action in favor of short-term nationalist interests. Past predictions that we are heading for global societal collapse suddenly don’t seem that unlikely. Is there still hope? A growing sense of impending doom In February 2024, I published a…...

October 10, 2025 | Post

A worrying new report reveals that humanity has breached the seventh of nine critical planetary boundaries, with severe consequences for Earth’s life support system. Seven of nine boundaries breached The newly breached planetary boundary is ocean acidification, caused by excess carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions. The other six boundaries…...

October 6, 2025 | Post

My journey to Guatemala In March, I set out on a journey to visit Population Connection’s amazing Global Partners in Guatemala. The experience was both inspirational and transformative, and a powerful reminder of why their work is so important. I came back feeling deeply inspired, full of gratitude, and more…...

October 3, 2025 | Post

Our team at Population Connection is deeply saddened by the passing of the legendary ethologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall. Through her decades-long field research on chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, she brought to light key behavioral insights that changed the way the world perceives animals. A trailblazer, Dr.…...

September 25, 2025 | Post

Over the past few weeks, the reproductive health and rights community has been rallying against the Trump administration’s reckless plan to spend $167,000 of taxpayer money to incinerate $10 million worth of USAID contraceptives that were destined for women in developing countries. Several reproductive health agencies offered to purchase and…...

September 23, 2025 | Post

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 finds that only 18 percent of targets are on track to be met by their 2030 deadline. Alarmingly, the same proportion of targets have gotten worse relative to 2015, while the remainder are either stagnating or progressing much too slowly. What are the SDGs?…...

September 12, 2025 | Post

The Economist editorial board recently published a welcome article arguing that low fertility is nothing to panic about. We responded with a letter, which wasn't published, so we are featuring it here. We encourage all our members and supporters to make their voices heard! See our media guide for advice…...

August 29, 2025 | Post

Panic over declining birthrates is widespread, with headlines warning of “population collapse” and even human extinction. This is absurd, considering that our global population is still growing and on track to exceed 10 billion in the second half of this century. Nevertheless, pro-growth pundits seem obsessed with raising alarm over…...

August 20, 2025 | Post

The journal Nature recently featured a news feature about declining birthrates. We responded with a letter to the editor, which wasn’t published, so we are featuring it here. We encourage all our members and supporters to make their voices heard! See our media guide for advice on how to do…...