I always enjoy Thomas Friedman’s columns, however, the ecotourism solution offered in the July 31 column, which was about Madagascar, missed the whole point. The root of the problems of environmental ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — If you’ve been thinking about ...

The world’s human population reached 8 billion people this year. Just 35 years ago, it hit 5 million. The rate of increased population is clearly unsustainable on many fronts. Overpopulation has ...

Overpopulation is often dismissed as a myth or a scare tactic. But when you look at housing, infrastructure, wages, and resource strain, the picture changes. This video explains why population growth ...

SERVICES ARE HELPING STRUGGLING LOCAL FAMILIES AT THE SAME TIME. THIS WEEK’S COMMUNITY CHAMPION IS COMBATING THE PROBLEM OF HOMELESS PET OVERPOPULATION HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. THIS MORNING WE’RE ...

The Bartholomew County Humane Society is struggling to keep up with the number of cats being housed at the facility, creating a need to ship some of the animals to adoption facilities in Ohio, and to ...

Hannelore Vogler states that her letter published Nov. 2, that the world is overpopulated. This is a total fallacy. If you put 4 people in a home situated on a 5,000 square foot lot (typical for any ...

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about global population growth. 1.) About that overpopulation problem. The world's ...

In my October debate with a letter writer regarding abortion ("Overpopulation is world's top problem, YourViews, Oct. 27), a third writer, Joseph Morgan-Steiner, got involved ("Conspiracy theories don ...

Sometimes things that seem unimportant at the time grow into something of enormous significance a little later. I think of this when I think of the late Van Robinson and his desire to help even with ...

Something clicked with the March 2 guest commentary, “Blast the sirens: We have an emergency,” regarding county growth planning for 300,000 additional residents in 20 years. At every level — city, ...