The definition of overpopulation is in the name: An area that’s beyond capacity to handle the material needs of the people living in it. Less than 1 billion people walked this planet in the mid-18th ...

News footage these days sometimes shows wild horses crowding dry rangelands in the American West or deer wandering through suburban streets, highlighting the growing problem of wildlife overpopulation ...

Scientists have reported it for decades: overpopulation can impair reproduction. Crowded chickens lay fewer eggs. Crowded mice have smaller broods. In humans, several studies have associated increased ...

Sunday's editorial, "Time's up for climate change deniers," left out something very important: overpopulation. As Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." ...

This is in response to the Aug. 31 letter entitled, "Look at history: Overpopulation not always the problem." In view of the author's attitude toward population control, the title should have had the ...

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 ...

Overpopulation actually is not the cause of the world’s environmental woes. To say so would be to deny the notion that humans can live sustainably. Nevertheless, the idea that the world is ...

In a recent op-ed by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears in The New York Times and picked up by The Salt Lake Tribune, “Don’t expect depopulation to solve our problems,” the authors contend that ...