World population keeps increasing. Humanity spreads all over the world just like a cancer, causes other species to go extinct, and changes the face of the earth. The net population in the world continues to increase at an alarming rate.

The U.S. government halted a decade-long experiment to hire private companies to help manage the soaring prison population, sending shares of facility operators Corrections Corp. of America and GEO Group Inc. plunging.

Dr. Ian Pearson calls himself an engineer, but he's really something of a fortune teller. Pearson, a distinguished futurist with degrees in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, has spent the last 25 years conceptualizing pieces of future technology. But a couple things set him apart from that creepy fortune teller with the crystal ball. He has a vast knowledge of how physics and engineering apply to the development of new technologies, and he claims to have a track record of...

Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health.

Nigeria's population is expected to surpass that of the US by 2050, according to new UN projections that predict the west African country could be the world's third most populous by the end of this century.

My personal predictions to what will take place on January 1st 2001 when the computer systems of the world will become confused and stop working because programmers in the mid 1900s didn't think we...