The Births and Deaths Registry has warned the public that it is illegal by law to bury a deceased person in the country without first registering the death and securing a burial permit ...

Violent disorder on the streets. Mass starvation. War over scarce resources. Those were some of the potential consequences of ...

From end-of-life care to burials and beyond, we answer your questions on mortality. We are all going to die. Yet this ...

April 25: As the world observes World Malaria Day, Sudan braces itself for an escalating malaria threat and the further ...

Greenland's relatively isolated indigenous culture finds itself increasingly exposed to the world just as Trump pushes to ...

Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S.

America’s birth rate has plunged to its lowest level ever, with the CDC reporting fewer than 1.6 children per woman in 2024.

The U.S. population size is also not declining. Currently, despite fertility below the replacement level of 2.1 children per ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data ...

The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse Humanity is set to start shrinking several decades ahead of schedule. By Marc Novicoff Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The ...

For the first time in U.S. history, more babies were born to women over 40 than to teenagers, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The milestone comes ...