The ice extent in January was down 498,000 square miles compared to the 1981 to 2010 average. That means the Arctic is now missing an area of ice six times the size of Wales.

If someone asked you, “Where can I go in the United States to escape the frigid air this January?” what would you say? Surely Florida would be high on the list. Hawaii would make the cut.

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This fact sheet relies on people self-identifying their race and ethnicity in the Census Bureau’s 2023 ACS to describe the nation’s Black population. The racial and ethnic categories used in census ...

This heat map presents an assessment based on the availability, completeness, and timeliness of public debt statistics and debt management documents posted on national authorities' websites. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order seeking to rename the Gulf of Mexico and change the name of North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, back to Mount McKinley.

Since than a coroner could not find a definitive cause of death but said this was most likely due to an un-identified medical reason or heat stroke. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are two ...

Pennsylvania is one of only a few states in the U.S. that has a shrinking overall population. However, a handful of counties in the Buckeye State have seen their population boom in recent years.

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births, and experts cautioning that the trend will accelerate in the coming years ...

China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth ...