Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of organisms of ...

Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Minnesota’s population has grown in three ways: naturally via more births than ...

The United States has enjoyed some level of population growth virtually every year for more than a century. But that doesn't mean every state is always growing in lockstep. Here's a for-instance: ...

Sometimes numbers don’t tell the whole story. The latest state population update might qualify as a case in point. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures, most Massachusetts communities ...