According to Statista projections, the global population is expected to rise from 8.16 billion in 2024 to 10.18 billion by 2100. The largest growth will occur in Africa, where the population is ...

Progress towards The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery's 2030 targets has been too slow and too patchy, particularly in low ...

India passed China as the world's most-populous country back in 2023 and is on course to approach 1.7 billion people by 2050.

Twenty years ago, Seal Island was “the greatest place on earth to see great whites,” recalls Hammerschlag, who also serves as president of Atlantic Shark Expeditions. Around 2010, white shark numbers ...

When South Africa’s apartheid ended, I was in my mid-twenties. Only a fool would have denied then that the future looked uncertain.

More information: Kotaro Kubo et al, Habitat use and abundance of an introduced population of the Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi): Comparison with the native population, PLOS One (2025).

The Maps dataset is the only area-stratified, multi-stage probability sample of its scale and frequency in South Africa, designed to offer the most objective and representative view of the South ...

Associations between low HDL, sex and cardiovascular risk markers are substantially different in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK: analysis of four population studies ...

In a bruising Oval Office meeting, the visitors’ plan to keep President Trump from focusing on false accusations of white genocide backfired spectacularly.

Let’s talk about density maps. The concept of a population density map seems easy: take the population and divide it by the area to retrieve the density. Unfortunately a major problem stands out: what ...

South Africa's flash density map is derived from an IEC 62858 compliant Lightning Location System (LLS) known as the Southern African Lightning Detection Network (SALDN) owned and operated by the ...

South Africa’s economic problems have deepened regional disparities, with rural provinces significantly underperforming, compared with urban hubs Gauteng and the Western Cape.