http://www.populationinstitute.org RSS feed on the Population Institute Newsroom http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/population-news/?id=80 WASHINGTON - A U.S. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, a television news reporter from the Philippines and a radio show host from Cameroon were among the 12 recipients of the Population Institute's 28th Annual Global Media Awards for Excellence in Population Reporting. Population Institute Names 2007 Global Media Award Winners media@populationinstitute.org 2007-12-11T10:11:19-05:00 http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/population-news/?id=70 While the world's average annual population growth rate of a little more than one percent is declining, most projections say the current global population of more than six-and-a-half-billion people will likely hit nine billion by 2050. The expectation that most of the growth will occur in poor countries worries some analysts who say overpopulation could lead to conflict. Overpopulation May Lead to Conflict media@populationinstitute.org 2007-07-12T11:30:36-05:00 http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/population-news/?id=60 For the past decade, waning of attention to population growth and unmet need for family planning by the global community has contributed to the threat of climate change. Last February 2, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a summary report approved by 113 nations, including the United States, which concludes that global warming is unequivocal, and that human activity is very likely (at the 90 percent confidence level) the main cause of the rise in temperatures observed since 1950. CURB POPULATION GROWTH TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING media@populationinstitute.org 2007-04-16T11:21:31-05:00 http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/population-news/?id=58 In March 2008, the Population Institute partnered with environmental, health and faith organizations to launch a new campaign, The American Families for Family Planning Worldwide campaign. The campaign is designed to increase knowledge and mobilize U.S. resources in support of voluntary international family planning programs. The campaign specifically promotes supporting the Focus on Family Health Worldwide Act (HR 1225), a bill that would authorize gradual increases in U.S. family planning funding. Join a New Photo Petition and Support Family Planning Worldwide media@populationinstitute.org 2007-03-19T16:33:39-05:00 http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/population-news/?id=56 Eleven of the 12 highest annual global temperatures ever recorded have occurred since 1995, convincing many of the world's leading scientists and environmentalists that global warming has begun in earnest. There are, of course, skeptics: among them, equally qualified experts who remain unconvinced of the existence of incontrovertible meteorological evidence that the foreseeable future will bring an overheated planet with catastrophic flooding, health epidemics and wildlife extinction. Heat-trapping greenhouse gases -- primarily carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by human activity, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels -- have long been identified as the principal catalyst behind rising temperatures. Op Ed: Protect the Planet, and Hurry media@populationinstitute.org 2007-03-12T11:49:28-05:00 http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/population-news/?id=55 International Women s Day is a celebration of women s political, economic, cultural, ethnic, educational and social achievements. It honors women s individual and collective power, and inspires them to achieve their full potential. Since the inception of International Women s Day in the early 1900s women have certainly come a long way. In politics, science, athletics, and the arts women have asserted their excellence time and again. Statement on International Women's Day media@populationinstitute.org 2007-03-08T10:33:15-05:00 http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/population-news/?id=52 By LAWRENCE SMITH, JR. WASHINGTON -- Speaking at a symposium in the National Press Club here last July, the eminent environmentalist Lester Brown said he was pondering a question I don t believe he, nor anyone else, really wants answered: How many failed states would it take to make a failed world? The World Bank, which prefers to call them fragile states, recently identified 26 countries that pose some of the world s toughest development challenges, noting that all face similar hurdles: weak security, fractured societal relations, corruption, breakdown in the rule of law, and lack of mechanism for generating legitimate power and authority. Op Ed: Rapid Human Growth Seen in Virtually All Failing States media@populationinstitute.org 2007-01-24T09:23:31-05:00