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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…...

November 17, 2025 | Post

The Guardian recently published an op-ed about US aid cuts. We sent a letter to the editor in response, 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…...

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,…...

November 7, 2025 | Post

The Economist recently published an article on the MAGA pronatalism movement. 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 on how to do that. Re: Make America…...

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…...