Out of breath: Population boom and its impact on air pollution

'Water is life': Global water crisis threatens life on planet

Why education and empowerment are significant to population stabilisation?

Pressure on global energy crisis deepens with population growth

Overpopulation and human greed, the two enemies of biodiversity

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Nearly 6,00,000 children globally died from acute lower respiratory infections caused by air pollution in 2016, according to a WHO report. The World Health Organization reports that 93 per cent of children worldwide under the age of 15 breathe in air that is so toxic that it severely impacts their health

Freshwater demand will grow exponentially as society grows, and if precautions are not taken today to conserve water, its scarcity will without a doubt become one of the biggest threats in the future

Poverty and illiteracy have been the two major drivers of overpopulation in India

With the global population expected to increase by 2 billion in the next two&nbsp;decades, electricity generation is estimated to increase by almost 49&nbsp;per cent&nbsp;by the year 2040

By some estimates in the last 50 years itself, our species population has doubled. The growing number of humans has led to a growing demand for resources, which has led to overexploitation of the earth’s natural resources.