First, a confession: I didn't observe Earth Hour on March 28.

Frankly, my wife and I forgot about it. All but two of our houselights were indeed off -- as they always are when we go out for the evening. But we left a lamp and porch light...

Americans registered record births in 2007, but starting in a few months the market for storks is likely to head in the same direction as the market for stocks: down.

The Cleveland Clinic reports a 50-percent increase in vasectomies, and many of the soon-to-be-sterile men are telling their...

Someone remind me: Why should I care what the ethnic makeup of the United States might be in 2050? Or the median age?

The U.S. Census Bureau finds it newsworthy that its just-released projection of U.S. population shows that Americans will be "more racially diverse and much older by mid-century."...

The pill, the pill,
I'm pining for the pill.
I'll never have any more
Because they're going to bless the pill.

That's the chorus of a song Scottish folksinger Matt McGinn wrote in 1968 after meeting a mother of 22 who wanted to try the pill. That...