With the largest economy and one of the largest populations, the United States is also among the world’s ...

Voices from around the city will explore what Chicago could and should look like in 2050 in a series of essays.

Drought-tolerant species, Mediterranean trees, smart improvements and vertical growing are likely to dominate our gardens by 2050, garden designer Kitti Kovacs is predicting. Kovacs is creating ...

Climate change often reaches the public through graphs, targets, and diplomatic language. Then a single image erases that distance. Climate Central's sea level reconstructions work with that exact ...

There will be an expected 18.6 million deaths from cancer globally in 2050, up from 10.4 million cancer deaths in 2023, according to a study published Sept. 24 in The Lancet. For their analysis, ...

New projections from the American Heart Association carry a grim warning: Worsening heart health for U.S. women.

Life expectancy (LE) in the U.S. is forecasted to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 79.9 years in 2035 and to 80.4 years in 2050 for all sexes combined. This modest increase lowers the country’s ...

The U.S. is forecasted to fall in its global rankings below nearly all high-income and some middle-income countries. Drug use disorders, high body mass index, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure ...