Wind turbine blades pose a growing waste problem as they are difficult to recycle. By 2050, millions of tons of these ...

The United States is expected to make only minor gains in life expectancy over the next few decades, and this minimal improvement highlights an “alarming trajectory of health challenges” facing the ...

Forecasts indicate a drastic increase in US obesity rates in the next 25 years, emphasizing the need for comprehensive public health strategies. For reference, the total US population is 337 million ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that ...

Life along the American coastline has always involved living with changing tides, storms and shifting shorelines. What is beginning to concern planners far more is the steady background rise in sea ...

The Roman sage Marcus Aurelius said we should never let the future disturb us. But then he never had a conversation with the futurologist Nick Bostrom about the state of the world in 2050. “There’s a ...

The United States is projected to become a majority non-white nation by 2050 according to US Census Bureau projections. Non-Hispanic white Americans make up 57.5 per cent of the population in the most ...

The US Air Force is considering contingency plans that would extend the life of 1970s-era intercontinental ballistic missiles by 11 more years to 2050 if delays continue to plague the new Sentinel ...