“Idahoans want less, not more, population growth,” by Leon Kolankiewicz, Idaho State Journal

Lou Gumm and Leon Kolankiewicz explore population growth's impact on water issues, focusing on biocapacity and ecological footprints in the American Southwest.

Our North Carolina report continues the secondary-migration theme of our Idaho study. Americans are leaving states with high immigration-driven population growth.

NumbersUSA’s two decades of sprawl studies – cited in scholarly literature over a hundred times in over a dozen languages – have explored the role of population growth in each county in each state and the role of a multiplicity of decisions by government, business, and individuals that increase the average amount of developed land for each person in each county.

Given immigration’s recent and projected contributions to U.S. population growth, immigration policy is an important factor that drives up housing prices and rents. According to a study published by the Urban Institute’s Housing Matters Initiative, immigration causes a significant increase in home prices and rents in the metropolitan areas where migrants settle, and an even … Continued

How far do you have to go to find peace and tranquility, away from the sounds of traffic or construction? One in twenty heart attacks in cities have been linked to noise pollution. But by some estimates, there are only roughly one dozen places in the entire United States where one can listen for 15 … Continued

When Rob Harding attended the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) this winter, participating governments had already failed to meet the targets they had set over the previous two decades (ICYMI, North American birds have declined by a third since the first Earth Day, a loss of over one billion birds). After experiencing COP15, Rob expects … Continued

Basic Freedoms Four out of five Americans say the area where they live either has enough people living there, or is already too crowded. In a recent CBS News poll (May 2023), Americans were asked about population density where they live, and whether or not their areas needed more people. Almost a third of Americans … Continued

Proposals to accommodate the worst border crisis America has ever witnessed belong in the realm of science fiction, in a world where limits don’t exist. In reality, the lesson of limits is all around us. Groundwater can take thousands of years to replenish, and Arizona is running out of it. The New York Times reports … Continued