By 2050, construction's carbon footprint may double, jeopardizing climate targets. Transitioning to low-carbon materials is ...

A landmark study predicts 60% of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 without government action.

The World Bank on Friday said the pace of population growth is most staggering in Africa, estimating that Nigeria will swell by about 130 million people by 2050. With the inhabitants presently over ...

Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves ...

Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group, has projected that Nigeria’s population will grow by about 130 million by the year 2050. Banga made the projection during the 2025 Annual Meetings of the ...

October 31 is World Cities Day. A day to celebrate people-centred innovation that is helping cities build resilience to climate, fragility, and rapid urban change.

Experts at SCOPE Europe 2025 confronted the challenges posed by rapid trial proliferation, digital transformation and ...

Ensuring healthy diets for an expected global population of nearly 10 billion people in 2050, while at the same time improving the world those people live in, will require sweeping changes to farming ...

This was as he projected that Nigeria’s population may rise by about 130 million by the year 2050. Banga disclosed this during the 2025 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion"; 1157.HK) is marking World Cities Day 2025 through its ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...