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February 10, 2026 | Post

Journalists across the Global North are so fascinated by declining birthrates that this trend has become the dominant population-themed media narrative. Despite substantial published research on family size choices and the factors that influence them (including a survey by Population Connection), reporters are still “investigating” why fertility is falling. Last…...

January 30, 2026 | Post

A new UN report has declared an era of “global water bankruptcy,” arguing that overextraction of fresh water has reached such severe levels that past hydrological and ecological baselines cannot realistically be restored. Combined with climate change and pollution, this overshoot threatens billions of lives and livelihoods and urgently needs…...

January 12, 2026 | Post

What does it mean when some countries use more than their fair share of Earth’s resources in weeks, while others never overshoot at all? Global Footprint Network has just released updated data on Country Overshoot Days and Ecological Deficit Days, highlighting when nations exhaust their annual ecological resources. To understand…...

December 18, 2025 | Post

A major new review of the state of the environment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides a comprehensive and refreshingly honest exploration of the root drivers of environmental degradation, and stresses the urgent need to overhaul how we live on this planet. The 7th edition of the Global…...

December 5, 2025 | Post

Population Connection Senior Analyst Hannah Evans reports on a site visit to El Dorado Nature Reserve in the Sierra Nevada with Women for Conservation, our Global Partner based in Colombia. Meeting Sara and Isabella [caption id="attachment_12058" align="alignleft" width="492"] The Population Connection delegation with Sara (far right) and Isabella (third from…...

November 27, 2025 | Post

This year’s international climate conference, COP30, wrapped up in Belém, Brazil, last weekend. Following the failure of previous COPs to deliver the ambition and action needed to avert catastrophic climate change, the stakes were higher than ever before. Unfortunately, however, COP30 was on the whole another flop, only making marginal…...

November 26, 2025 | Post

Population Connection, alongside thousands of global advocates, researchers, and policymakers, actively participated in the 7th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), held in Bogotá, Colombia, from November 3–6, 2025, with pre-conference sessions beginning November 1. As the world’s largest scientific gathering focused on family planning and sexual and reproductive health…...