population

Monthly housing starts were down 19% year-over-year in centers with a population of 10,000 or more, with 18,834 units recorded in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Because he couldn’t skate growing up in tiny Port Williams, Nova Scotia — population 1,100 — Shaffelburg turned first to running, winning the province championship at 3,000 meters in middle school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

“The slowdown in population growth, brought on by tougher immigration curbs, also will increasingly weigh on demand,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

In total, some 21 million people, out of Argentina's population of 46 million, have some type of debt, according to the Central Bank.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The gray seal population off Cape Cod had shrunk because they had been hunted for their meat, oil, and skins.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

One is the resurgence of whale populations thanks to government action including the Endangered Species Act, as well as a cleaner habitat supported by air and water protections.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Their closest living populations are now nearly 2,500 km away in southern Mexico, indicating that the species once occupied a dramatically different geographic range.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Traditional approaches to studying cause-and-effect relationships are often not possible when investigating populations and ecosystems, which are large, complex and messy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Among them is Elizabeth Meek, who worked for the federal government for two decades, helping oversee biomedical research and track global infectious-disease spread in animal populations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Why should wars tend to cause amalgamations of societies when populations are dense but not when they are sparse?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond