Parenthood is not just expensive — it is an open-ended commitment with unbounded downside risk. In Singapore, that risk is not theoretical. It is visible, documented, and increasingly shaping private ...

It would require society to shoulder the cost of raising Singaporean children.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Every G7 nation's fertility rate dropped below replacement levels in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the pension bill is coming due, and organizations are not ready.

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has wrapped up its annual surveys of Great Lakes fish populations, gathering ...

What has the world's population climbed to now? We remember reading that it recently surpassed 8 billion souls. After we Googled, it turns out the number of people on the planet is up to 8.2 billion ...

Picture yourself dragging in your fishing net after a day at sea, only to catch a glimpse of a strange creature staring back ...

The world is going to hell in a handbasket. And we’re all basket-weaving. Our nation is in midst of its worst constitutional ...

Livestock farmers are being advised to vaccinate their animals against bluetongue, as vet and industry leaders warn the coming “season” could be the worst ...

The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview. ‘Way ...

Kathy Hochul’s subtlety was too much for X. The Democratic governor at POLITICO’s New York Agenda: Albany Summit last week said she wanted pro-tax-hike millionaires to help lure back wealthy New ...

Over the weekend, one of recent memory's worst human beings dropped dead, and we can't summon up much regret over his passing. Paul R. Ehrlich, an eminent ecologist and population scientist whose best ...