The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes

A Nepalese community that grows vegetables using traditional techniques is now succumbing to population pressures and rapid urbanisation.

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads took precedence over critical issues such as women's nutrition and education

In order to reinforce its pro abortion stand, the new US administration has announced its intention of resuming funding to the UNFPA. The hitch: UNFPA supports China's rigorous population control programme, which has been decried internationally as infrin

The consumerist tendency of our society has resulted in the branding of population explosion as the villain in a world that has place for everyone's need but no one's greed.

American aid for Indian irrigation projects has been withdrawn as focus shifts to other sectors.

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