Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The U ...

Governments all over the world are trying to reverse the birth rate decline, with almost every country on the planet facing the challenges that may come with fewer babies being born. A major issue is ...

The world’s population has more than doubled since 1960. During that same period, global wildlife populations, according to ...

Mortgage rates have declined to their lowest in a year, increasing refinance eligibility and home equity borrowing. Homeowners hold $11.2 trillion in tappable equity, creating new volume opportunities ...

Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington's complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for irrigation, drinking and other uses at a pace that threatens its sustainability, ...

Historical fears of overpopulation have shifted to modern concerns about declining birth rates in developed nations. The U.S. fertility rate has fallen below the "replacement rate," threatening ...

Earlier this month, after the Heritage Foundation released a 168-page report detailing a comprehensive plan to reverse our nation’s declining birth rate, National Public Radio aired a story on the ...