Who really won the Cold War? Maybe China. In 1972, Cold War logic pushed President Richard Nixon into an unlikely alliance with Mao Zedong—bringing China back into the mainstream of the world economy.

A new report published in the medical journal The Lancet from researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicts the population is expected to begin ...

In 2050, Japan will win the World Cup.Have you ever imagined such a future?It is not just the Japan national team that will ...

Written for The Nature Conservancy Magazine Fall 2019 issue by Heather Tallis, former lead scientist for TNC. A few years ago The Nature Conservancy began a process of reassessing its vision and goals ...

New York remains the world’s largest city economy in 2050, but Shanghai and other Asian megacities make some of the biggest ...

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The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations report being launched today. With ...

A new Pew Research Center report examines global public opinion on the challenges posed by aging populations and analyzes projections for the populations in the U.S. and in 22 other countries. Here ...

Global nuclear generating capacity is expected to increase from 416 GWe in 2023 to 647 GWe in 2050 in a scenario based on existing energy policies, according to the latest World Energy Outlook from ...

The world’s population is expected to increase by 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050, according to a new United Nations report launched today.

Electricity use for cooling could double by 2050, driving up the greenhouse gas emissions that cause warming. By Hiroko Tabuchi Sixty nations committed on Tuesday to improve the efficiency of new ...