Increasing threats to loss of habitat in fastest growing states

By Christy Shaw

Immigration-driven population growth and its secondary pressure on state to state migration is leading to further development over habitat and further endangering already beleaguered wildlife. Loss of wildlife habitat is accelerating and now spreading well beyond the more widely reported coastal or dense urban areas. Since the year 2000, when NumbersUSA began conducting its sprawl … Continued

Growing Demands on a Strained Commodity

By NumbersUSA

In some positive news, our country’s overall aggregate water usage has decreased over the past few decades despite our population growth. Yet, this has not changed the sobering reality that we are continuing to deplete our finite water supply. Ultimately, growing demands are being placed on an already strained commodity. Our National Sprawl Study reports: … Continued