Coastal Fisheries Hit Hard by South Asia Tsunami
The tsunami in December 2004 damaged or destroyed countless coastal fishing communities along the eastern and western Indian Ocean. PRB asked the WorldFish Center in Panang, Malaysia, about the extent of the ecological destruction. (January 2005)

Breaking New Ground in the Philippines: Opportunities to Improve Human and Environmental Well-Being (PDF: 327KB)

 In the face of mounting development challenges, people and communities across the Philippines are designing innovative programs that address human and environmental well-being in holistic ways. (November 2004)

In Harm's Way: Hurricanes, Population Trends, and Environmental Change
This year's devastating tropical storms show how population growth and socioeconomic conditions can magnify environmental disasters. (October 2004)

Darfur Highlights the Impact of Food Insecurity on Women
The conflict in Darfur has killed as many as 50,000 people and displaced 1.2 million, but millions more, especially women, are threatened through malnutrition and starvation. (September 2004)

Population Growth and Deforestation: A Critical and Complex Relationship
During the last two decades, agricultural expansion, logging, development, and other human activities caused the deforestation of more than 120,000 square kilometers each year.

Urbanization: An Environmental Force to Be Reckoned With
People have become an increasingly powerful environmental force over the last 10,000 years. The recent increase in the world’s population has magnified the effects of our agricultural and economic activities. But this growth masks an even more important human-environmental interaction: Within the next few years, more than half the world’s population will be living in urban areas. (April 2004)

Critical Links: Population, Health, and the Environment (PDF: 340KB)

 The impact of the world’s 6.3 billion people on the environment is unprecedented. The fundamental relationships are easy to grasp: Earth provides energy and raw materials for human activities, and those activities in turn generate pollution and damage to environmental resources, in the process harming human health and well-being. This Population Bulletin explores the critical interactions among population, health, and the environment. (BUL58.3, September 2003)

Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions

 Nearly half of the world's population lives within 200 kilometers of a coastline and this number is likely to double by 2025. As human pressure on coastal areas increases, identifying ways to balance people's needs while sustaining coastal resources is becoming more important. (September 2003)

Service-Delivery Efforts Forge Links Between Population, Health, and the Environment
Many organizations are now addressing population, health, and environmental concerns by incorporating reproductive health information and services into environmental protection efforts or adding environmental issues to reproductive health or population education programs. (September 2003)

World Health Day 2003: A Focus on Children's Environmental Health
This year's World Health Day (April 7) was dedicated to ensuring healthy environments for children by increasing awareness of environmental risks to children's health, building on existing interventions, and adapting concrete actions to local needs. (April 2003)