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 ...

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about global population growth. 1.) About that overpopulation problem. The world's ...

The world’s human population reached 8 billion people this year. Just 35 years ago, it hit 5 million. The rate of increased population is clearly unsustainable on many fronts. Overpopulation has ...

Why do you think it is you don't seem to hear much about population control? It isn't because it's politically incorrect or taboo or misunderstood. We hear frequently about the overuse and abuse of ...

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 ...

Hannelore Vogler states that her letter published Nov. 2, that the world is overpopulated. This is a total fallacy. If you put 4 people in a home situated on a 5,000 square foot lot (typical for any ...

The Bartholomew County Humane Society is struggling to keep up with the number of cats being housed at the facility, creating a need to ship some of the animals to adoption facilities in Ohio, and to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — If you’ve been thinking about ...

Something clicked with the March 2 guest commentary, “Blast the sirens: We have an emergency,” regarding county growth planning for 300,000 additional residents in 20 years. At every level — city, ...