People on our planet are using almost double Earth’s resources – a number known as ‘biocapacity’ – and it is worsening inequality, new research has shown. A paper published in Nature argues that ...

Global Footprint Network said overshoot reduction efforts are still far too slow Only 51 countries have the biocapacity to sustain the population's ecological footprint Overshoot is calculated by ...

The United States is one of the world’s biggest consumers, and U.S. policies can have global environmental effects. As of 2013, the world’s population would need 1.7 Earths to support its demands on ...

Humans are using nearly 73 percent more natural resources than the Earth produces in a year, a study has found. A new report looks at the deficit in the world's 'biocapacity' – the ability of the ...

The U.S. has abundant natural resources, but they’re still not enough to meet our huge appetites for energy, food, clothing, and other goods and services. According to a new report, we use up about ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It’s so easy to slip into debt, but so hard ...

If all the world’s population lived like these countries, we would use up a year’s worth of the planet’s resources in less than six months. If you spent your whole paycheck two weeks before the next ...