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Concord Monitor
April 25, 2018
North of the White Mountains, however, the estimated population is as much as 50 percent less than is sought in the state's long-term Big Game Management Plan. Ever two years the state adjusts hunting seasons based on estimates of animal populations, which is why, for example, hunters can legallyÃâà...
The Denver Post
April 25, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. — The only wild population of endangered red wolves is unsustainable and could be wiped out within a decade after dwindling to a few dozen, government officials said in a report Tuesday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service review of the species' status estimates that only about 40 wolvesÃâà...
Times Higher Education (THE)
April 25, 2018
International students have helped fuel record growth in Australia, injecting a youthful antidote to the ageing of the country's population. For the first time, Sydney has absorbed more than 100,000 extra people in a single year. Its growth was eclipsed by Melbourne, where the population increased by justÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 25, 2018
The only wild population of endangered red wolves has hit such dire numbers that it's flirting with extinction in the next decade, according to a new federal review. ... "The population cannot recover from their losses and overcome mortality resulting in a steadily declining population," the review states.
WSOC Charlotte
April 25, 2018
Leopoldo Miranda, an assistant regional director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the review draws on research showing the habitat won't support the wild population without heavy human intervention. Miranda said the agency spends about $1 million each year on the wolves, more than any otherÃâà...
Utica Observer Dispatch
April 25, 2018
State Sen. Joseph Griffo believes the lack of population growth in New York is due largely to taxes and regulations, which discourage people from moving into the state. “Our population, in my opinion, leaves because they're over-taxed, we over-regulate and mandate and the energy costs are too high,” saidÃâà...
Radio Iowa
April 25, 2018
“It's actually accepted by PETA as the most humane way to reduce populations,” he says, “so it has been accepted by both sides, which is good.” Neighbor says if they just removed the eggs then the goose could lay again and it wouldn't solve the problem. This allows them to cut the number of new goslingsÃâà...
NOLA.com
April 24, 2018
The tool aims to reduce the jail population by helping judges better identify low-risk defendants who could be safely released ahead of their trials. ... planning grant as part of the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge, which offers support to those working to reduce local jail populations.
Seattle Times
April 19, 2018
What is most remarkable to him, Balcomb said, isn't even the inbreeding in the population, but the cratering birthrate, and small number of breeding females among the southern residents. No babies have been born and survived in the southern residents' J, K and L pods since 2015, Balcomb said.
Lawrence Journal-World
April 19, 2018
The average daily population of the Douglas County Jail dipped to 231 inmates in 2017, reversing a five-year trend in which the facility's daily population has increased. The average daily population number was among the statistics Undersheriff Gary Bunting provided last week to the LawrenceÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
April 19, 2018
New data has shown the proportion of the child population to Turkey's total population has dropped to 28.3 percent in 2017. By the end of 2017, Turkey's total population was 80.81 million and the population of children aged 0-17, was 22.883 million, according to the results of the Address Based PopulationÃâà...
MDJOnline.com
April 19, 2018
The number of new Douglas County residents began moving up again in 2017 after taking a one-year dip the year before. The county's estimated population increased by 1,861 residents to 143,882 between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates. It exceeded theÃâà...
The Pew Charitable Trusts (blog)
April 19, 2018
These populations are growing as it becomes easier to work from anywhere, and as more people retire and move away from the city. The trend is part of what drove the overall slight growth of the rural population in the United States from 2016 to 2017, for the first time since 2010, according to a StatelineÃâà...
The Guardian
April 19, 2018
Take a gander: Dutch drivers warned over boom in geese population ... climate make it the best country for geese in Europe, according to the Sovon Dutch centre for field ornithology, the organisation responsible for surveying bird populations. ... The population boom, however, is not without problems.
The Denver Post
April 19, 2018
Here's something to mull over: Weld County is one of the three fastest-growing counties in Colorado, the other two being Larimer and El Paso. Since 2010, nearly 600,000 residents have moved to Colorado. Much of that growth has come along the Front Range, including Greeley and Weld County. So howÃâà...
Yale News
April 19, 2018
... READ1 variants among 43 populations from five continents with the numbers of consonants and of vowels present in the languages spoken by those populations. The number of consonants — but not of vowels — correlated with the frequency of RU1-1, a READ1 variant in the language's population.
Daily Sabah
April 19, 2018
Figures that cover 2017 justify the authorities' concern on the decline in the country's youth population. The proportion of children to the total population, which stands at slightly above 80 million, is only 28.3 according to TurkStat. The number of children or those 0-17 years of age is 22.8 million as of the endÃâà...
ABC Online
April 4, 2018
"That's about the same as our Indigenous population, whereas for the rest of Australia it's 28 to 29 per cent born overseas." The Philippines have overtaken England as Darwin's number one migrant source country. The city's Nepalese community doubled in size between 2011 and 2016, while there wasÃâà...
Crow River Media
April 4, 2018
In 2016, the DNR radio-collared 20 cow elk in Minnesota's three herds to begin research into elk movements and habitat use that should help managers improve the effectiveness of elk population surveys, the knowledge of Minnesota elk biology and movements, and elk depredation management.
Al-Monitor
April 4, 2018
The updated population data have once again placed the inherent tension between Israel's Jewish and democratic nature in the forefront of the political arena. While Israeli liberal-minded political forces argue that there is no contradiction and that Israel can be both Jewish and democratic, others on theÃâà...
Scienceline
April 4, 2018
Because the monarchs are so tightly packed and there are so many of them, manually counting these butterflies to determine their population size is out of the question. Instead, the World Wildlife Fund quantifies the monarch populations indirectly by calculating the total area of land they occupy, saysÃâà...
NOLA.com
April 4, 2018
The U.S. Census Bureau releases annual population estimates in between every census count, relying on local birth and death records as well as address changes on Medicare and tax forms to figure out how many people may be living in a particular area. This latest round of estimates for metropolitanÃâà...
Arizona Capitol Times
April 4, 2018
That resulted in a captive breeding program, with all the Mexican wolves alive today originating from seven that, by 1980, constituted the last of the subspecies. The ultimate goal was to reestablish wolf populations in the wild. The latest rule sets an objective of 300 to 325 Mexican wolves within an area ofÃâà...
The Weather Channel
April 4, 2018
JOHN'S, N.L. – Hungry East Coast seal populations have surged in recent decades, spurring calls for an increased seal hunt — and even a possible cull — to ... The Northwest Atlantic harp seal population is estimated at about 7.4 million animals — almost six times what it was in the 1970s, according to theÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
April 4, 2018
County population statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau on March 22, reveals that number of people living in area counties continues to decline. Belmont County lost another 539 people, or 0.8 percent, between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017. The current estimated population is 68,029. Since theÃâà...
Renal and Urology News
April 4, 2018
(HealthDay News) -- Among the US population, dining out is associated with exposure to phthalates, according to a study published online in Environment International. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Julia R. Varshavsky, PhD, MPH, from the University of California inÃâà...
CBC.ca
April 3, 2018
Population expert Michael Haan says babies are in short supply in New Brunswick because thousands of young people who should be having them here have moved away. (Submitted)Over the same period in the other Atlantic provinces, births are down, but only 2.7 percent and in the rest of Canada, theyÃâà...
KEYC
April 3, 2018
Since 2010, Blue Earth County has seen 4.6% growth, with nearly three thousand people added to the population. In comparison, Rochester's Olmstead County has grown 7.4%, and St. Cloud's Stearns County 4.7%. Duluth's St. Louis County is stagnant, actually losing 226 people over the past 8 years.
Health IT Analytics
April 3, 2018
April 03, 2018 - Humana's Bold Goal program, a comprehensive strategy aiming to improve population health, focuses on identifying and addressing social determinants of health to boost outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries in communities across the country. The Bold Goal program tracks its successÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
April 3, 2018
The population in the north of the island is around 352,000, according to reports in Turkish Cypriot press on Tuesday with 230,000 of those classed as 'TRNC citizens'. Yeni Duzen quoted Odul Muhtaroglu, 'undersecretary of the state planning organisation' saying there were 122,000 people living in theÃâà...
Baxter Bulletin
April 3, 2018
The latest federal census estimate shows the Twin Lakes Area's population declining slightly compared to the population recorded for the 2010 Census. The 2017 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, released in March, shows slight population losses in Baxter County and every adjacent county, save for one.
LancasterOnline
April 3, 2018
The population of Pennsylvania grew by 18,452 in 2017. That might sound like a lot. After all, it's enough people to fill Clipper Magazine Stadium three times over, and it's certainly better than 2016's population loss of 4,000. But it is just half the number of new Pennsylvanians we were getting just 20 yearsÃâà...
Hawaii Tribune Herald
April 3, 2018
Conservationists say a new proposal to reclassify the nene from endangered to threatened shows that “great strides” have been made in recovering the species, whose population dropped to 30 animals in 1960. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed reclassifying the nene, or HawaiianÃâà...
Elizabethtown Bladen Journal
April 2, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bladen County has the largest population decrease in southeastern N.C. over the past seven years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Population estimates released by the Census Bureau this month show on July 1, 2010, there were 35,194 people living in the Mother County.
Enumclaw Courier-Herald
April 2, 2018
As we deal with our population growth, we must address sufficient supplies of drinkable fresh water for residential, commercial, agriculture, fisheries and industrial needs. Not only will our numbers continue to climb, but so will competing pressures for fresh water. While demographers can project populationÃâà...
Peoria Journal Star
April 2, 2018
WASHINGTON — City officials didn't think they were taking a big risk about a year ago when they decided to pay the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a partial special census in neighborhoods that had grown substantially since the 2010 decennial U.S. census. Besides their optimism that the growth hadÃâà...
NUjournal
April 2, 2018
Populations change three ways: through birth, through death and through migration. These changes are measured by the Census Bureau each year and added to the last official census to produce the annual population updates. According to the data, Brown County's population has dropped by 699 peopleÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
April 2, 2018
Riyadh — Saudi Arabia's population registered an annual growth rate of 2.52% last year, the General Authority for Statistics (GaStat) announced on Monday. GaStat conducted a set of population statistics surveys last year, last of which was the population characteristics survey conducted between April 14Ãâà...
BizTimes.com (Milwaukee)
April 2, 2018
The metro Milwaukee area's population has grown only 1.3 percent since 2010. By comparison, 63 metro areas in the country have seen double-digit percentage increases in population since then. Metro Milwaukee's 1.31 percent increase was only the 269th-largest population increase out of 382 metroÃâà...
The Sun Chronicle
April 2, 2018
ATTLEBORO — The senior citizen population in the city is growing fast and many are worried about how a tax increase to pay for a new high school will affect them if it's approved by voters Tuesday. City officials estimate the “average” yearly added tax is $277 for a home valued at $280,000. The singleÃâà...
New Historian
April 2, 2018
The biggest history news stories of the last seven days: a secret Amazon population, the oldest footprints in North America, and an insect which sheds ... have discovered remarkable new evidence that parts of the Amazon long thought uninhabited were in fact home to thriving, diverse populations of up to aÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 2, 2018
In a region considered a worthy candidate to host Amazon's second headquarters — attracting considerable national buzz for its affordability, attractiveness and other amenities — people are often surprised when they hear that the population keeps dropping. But the shouldn't be. It's been that way for yearsÃâà...
The Herald-Times
April 1, 2018
Population trends for Monroe and surrounding counties are a microcosm of what's happening around the state. New population estimates from Indiana University's Indiana Business Research Center show growth in a handful of metropolitan areas and counties where the state's two large flagshipÃâà...
The Japan Times
April 1, 2018
Japan's population will fall everywhere except in Tokyo by 2045 and even growth in the capital will likely be marginal, according to a government estimate released Friday. The estimate by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research said Japan's population is expected to stand atÃâà...
The Japan News
April 1, 2018
The Yomiuri ShimbunThe populations of all prefectures but Tokyo are likely to decline from 2015 to 2045, according to the latest estimate announced by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. According to the Regional Population Projections for Japan released on Friday, the totalÃâà...
Martinsburg Journal
April 1, 2018
MARTINSBURG — Eastern Panhandle counties of Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan all saw population increases in 2017, according to new U.S. Census ... In contrast, 45 of 55 West Virginia counties posted sizable drops in their resident rolls, keeping with a seven year trend in shrinking populations in mostÃâà...
Terre Haute Tribune Star
April 1, 2018
New census estimates show Indiana experiencing modest statewide population growth since 2010 with some of the most significant increases in the Indianapolis and Fort Wayne areas. Bloomington, Lafayette and the Indiana suburbs of Louisville also saw above average gains. The Terre Haute area lostÃâà...
Fairmont Sentinel
March 31, 2018
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2017 the population of Martin County dropped from 19,890 to 19,850, a continuance of a slow decline. Since 2010, the population has decreased by 951 residents. Faribault County also has seen a steady decrease, with the population losing about 71 residents inÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 30, 2018
Japan's population will be further concentrated in metropolitan areas, with Tokyo home to 12.8 percent, followed by neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture at 7.8 percent, and Osaka Prefecture at 6.9 percent, according to the projections. That means more than one in every four residents of Japan would be livingÃâà...
Science Daily
March 30, 2018
As salmon are to the West, walleye are to this region. People travel to the state's Northwoods just to fish for walleye; a large Catholic population enjoys them for Friday fish fries; and Native American tribes spear walleye in the early spring in accordance with their cultural and religious traditions. The meat isÃâà...
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