population decrease

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Ward said changing water temperatures, pollutants, loss of habitat, over-exploitation and barriers to migration have led to the population decrease.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

The population decrease was second only to New York, which lost about 15,000 more people than California, census data show.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023

In that time, nearly 75 percent of all U.S. counties experienced a natural population decrease, compared with 55 percent of all counties in 2020 and 45 percent in 2019, the Census Bureau found.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

Last year, when state demographers recorded California’s first population decrease, Bakersfield grew the fastest of the state’s 10 biggest cities, bringing its population to almost 400,000.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2021

Not only does the population decrease where rice is grown," says Escourrou Milliago, "but even the flocks are attacked by typhus.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.