Robinson has a geeky, exuberant imagination and likes to pick up pieces of the world and examine them like a geologist examines ... I’m willing to say, “Look, nobody’s done a proper analysis ...

But eventually I felt like I couldn’t, in good conscience, look into the eyes of a child I knew would face a diminishing world, one without the old-growth forests I fell in love with as a girl ...

In 2022, nearly 134 million babies were born around the world. That is an average of 367,000 newborns each day. While this may sound like a lot ... s population is to look at its median age ...

Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now ...