• Development groups “disgraceful” on population   (17 December 2009)
• OPT launches ground-breaking carbon offset scheme   (3 December 2009)
• UK growth out of control – OPT on new population projections   (21 October 2009)
• Contraception is greenest technology - study   (9 September 2009)
• Greens ignoring population-climate link - Lovelock   (26 August 2009)
• Tackle population growth to beat climate change   (17 August 2009)
• Public want smaller families, populations - poll   (11 July 2009)
• Attenborough is new OPT patron   (13 April 2009)
• Sex main cause of population growth   (26 March 2009)
• Earth “heading for 5 billion overpopulation”   (16 March 2009)
• Small families produce big green gains   (16 February 2009)
• Think-tank urges population inquiry   (5 January 2009)
• Population growth threatens UK’s future   (21 August 2008)
• Is there a “right” to have children?   (11 July 2008)
• Eco-towns “irrelevant” to housing and environmental needs   (30 June 2008)
• Lords immigration report overlooks environment   (1 April 2008)
• Population growth is national security risk   (19 March 2008)
• Britain overpopulated by 70 per cent   (18 February 2008)
• UK sleepwalking to population nightmare   (23 October 2007)
• Migration figures show UK quality of life falling   (22 August 2007)
• Compulsory birth limits “may become unavoidable”   (11 July 2007)
• World should not give in to mega-cities   (27 June 2007)
• Combat climate change with fewer babies   (7 May 2007)
• Leaders urged to be brave on population   (13 March 2007)
• "Overcrowded" UK can support only 17 million people   (4 December 2006)
• Migration “moving deckchairs on Titanic”   (2 November 2006)
• “UK “in denial about overpopulation”   (31 July 2006)
• “Stop at two children to halt climate change”   (11 July 2006)
• Mass migration "damaging the planet"   (30 May 2006)
• Population growth "bigger threat than climate change"   (20 March 2006)
• Seven million more houses in UK   (14 March 2006)
• Baby shortage "a myth"   (20 February 2006)
• Call for population "Kyoto"   (14 February 2006)
• Is the UK overpopulated? Experts debate population   (8 February 2006)
• Ten million population increase in UK - another 57 Lutons   (20 October2005)
• Planning for Housing Provision (ODPM Consultation Paper): OPT Response   (9 September 2005)
• New government figures show UK needs national population policy   (25 August 2005)
• Britain's major parties "environmentally illiterate" - An OPT analysis of election manifestos shows no mention of human population growth as an issue   (25 April 2005)
• More MPs oppose population growth... but delayed action makes it more difficult to reverse   (8 February 2005)
• Sustainable development needs a sustainable population policy   (6 September 2004)
• Population growth must stop, says OPT   (18 December 2003)
• Call for population stabilisation policies in party manifestos   (23 September 2003)
• UNDP World population projections: OPT calls for a population protocol   (27 February 2003)
• Government house-building plans: the concreting of Britain. OPT calls for a population policy   (28 January 2003)
• Census results: OPT publishes population reduction targets   (29 September 2002)

2010: The First Post (7 January);

2009: Public Servant ( More uncertainty lies ahead for public services, David Nicholson-Lord, 2 January 2009); Daily Mail (5 January); Public Servant Online (6 January); Sunday Times; Ziare.com, HotNews.ro (Romania),Virgilio Notizie (Italy), Digital Journal (Canada) (1 February); Daily Mail, The Scotsman, BBC Radio Belfast; LifeSiteNews.com (US) (2 February); The Scotsman (3 February); The Australian (4 February); Alan Titchmarsh Show, ITV (5 February); Talksport Radio (George Galloway); Scientific Alliance Newslettter (6 February); The Observer (8 February); BBC News Online (18 February); BBC Radio Wales, OneNewsNow (US) (19 February); Delfi online (Estonia), i105107 Radio (Ireland) (20 February); Sunday Times, New Zealand Herald (February 22); New Statesman (Planet Overload, David Nicholson-Lord, 5 March); Roy Green Radio Show (Canada) (8 March); The Independent, Laura Ingraham Show (US) (10 March); The Guardian (21 March); Sunday Times, The Observer, BBC1 The Big Questions, San Francisco Examiner (22 March); Daily Star (23 March); Rush Limbaugh Show (US) (24 March); BBC Radio 4 Today, Channel 4 News, More 4 News (26 March); BBC World Service Analysis, Sunday Times (29 March); PeopleandPlanet.net (30 March); BBC2 The Daily Politics (31 March); Spiked (1 April); American Spectator (2 April); BBC News 24, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Metro, BBC Radio 4 News, BBC News Online, WalesOnLine, Leicester Mercury, AOL News, Huffingtonpost.com, Spiked, newKerala.com (13 April); The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Herald (Scotland), Belfast Telegraph, The Australian, Newstalk Radio (Ireland) (14 April); Deutsche Welle Radio (Germany)(15 April); BBC News Online, Spin1038 Radio (Ireland) (16 April); The Independent (17 April); Sunday Times (19 April); BBC News Online, Spiked (Why we need population reduction, Adrian Stott) (20 April); The Australian, Leicester Mercury (22 April); Take a Break (23 April); Fox Television Business News (US), The Australian (24 April); BBC Television World News Debate (26 April); Isle of Man Today (27 April); Telepolis (Germany) (1 May); Korea Times (South Korea) (7 May); Dag Bladet (Norway), The National (Abu Dhabi) (Defusing the population timebomb, Rosamund McDougall) (9 May); El Correo (Spain) (10 May); BBC1 The One Show (13 May); New Scientist (15 May); The Times (23 May); Fox News (US) (11 June); Examiner.com, Limelife.com (US)(15 June); Living.Morethan.com (16 June); OneWorld.UK (18 June); PeopleandPlanet.net (30 June); RTE Radio, Ireland (1 July); Spiked (9 July); BBC Radio 5 Live, Western Daily Press, The Cornishman (11 July); Daily Express (13 July); Daily Mail, Talk Sport Radio (14 July); The Star, Malaysia (16 Jul); Irish Independent (21 July); Irish Times, Daily Times, Pakistan (30 July); The Guardian, Spiked (5 August); Common Dreams.org, US (7 August); Premier Christian Radio (10 August); Basingstoke Gazette (12 August); Oxford Mail, The Citizen, South Africa; Daily Mail (17 August); Sonntagszeitung (Switzerland) (23 August); ITN News, Channel 4 News, PM (BBC Radio 4), BBC Radio Wales (27 August); Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Today (BBC Radio 4), World Today(BBC World Service) (28 August); The Guardian (29 August); Sunday Times (30 August); Wells Journal, BBC Focus magazine (September); Holland Sentinel (US) (6 September); Daily Telegraph, UPI.com, LifeNews.com, Digital Journal (Canada) (9 September); San Francisco Chronicle, Catholic News Agency (10 September); IRIN News (South Africa) (11 September); San Francisco Examiner (14 September); Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, GreenandSave.com, Scoop (15 September); ClickGreen (16 September);: The Australian, Cnet News (17 September); The Register, Popular Science, Holland Sentinel (18 September); The Lancet, AlterNet (19 September); Mother Nature Network, The New American (US) (21 September); Now Magazine (Canada), Business World Online (Philippines), San Francisco Examiner, RH Reality Check (US) (23 September); New Scientist (24 September); CathNews (25 September); Voltairenet (28 September); The Times, The Guardian, U.TV News (Ulster), Salon.com (29 September); Spiked (6 October); Financial Times (17 October); CNSNews.com (19 October); Washington Times, Media Matters for America (20 October); Canada.com (21 October); The Observer, The Independent on Sunday (25 October): BBC Wildlife (November); International Viewpoint Online Magazine (November); EU Radio Nantes, ABC News (Australia), Bangor Daily News (US) (5 November); World Magazine (US) (7 November); America Magazine (8 November); Stroud News & Journal (12 November); Examiner.com (14 November); Lifenews.com (16 November); Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4), Channel 4 News (18 November); Islam Channel (Ummah Talk) (19 November); MercatorNet (21 November); Metro, Talksport Radio (23 November); Examiner.com (US) (24 November); BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service (The Climate Connection) (30 November); The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, BBC 1, BBC News 24, BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 2, BBC News Online, PeopleandPlanet.net, Times Online, Radio Netherlands, New American.com (3 December); More4 News, Cape Talk Radio (S. Africa), The Age (Australia), Mindanao Examiner (Philippines), BBC News, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 (4 December); Sunday Express (6 December); British Medical Journal, Spiked Online (7 December); Daily Telegraph, Legal Brief Today (8 December); BBC2 Horizon, The Guardian, The Times, The Sun, Investors.com (9 December); Financial Times, New Statesman, China Daily (10 December); Boston Globe, The Australian (11 December); Chorus Radio (Canada) (12 December); Zenit News Agency (13 December); New Zealand Herald, Grist Magazine (US) (15 December); Voice of America (16 December); Vox Africa TV (20 December); Colourful Radio (21 December); Catholic Online (22 December); BBC News Online (27 December); Spiked (30 December);

2008: Christian Examiner (US) (January 2008); Sunday Express (Why we’re in a tight spot, Rosamund McDougall), Sunday Times (Budge up back there, the country’s got to squeeze more in yet, Jonathan Leake) (6 January 2008); Liverpool Echo (17 January); The Guardian (29 January); Radio 5 Live (30 January); Clean Slate (Winter 2007-08); Spiked (1 February); Geographical Magazine (February); The Guardian (6 February); The Times (8 February); Sunday Express (17 February); Daily Telegraph, Daily Record, Metro, Radio 5 Live, Spiked (18 February); Daily Mirror (21 February); Spiked (25 February); PM, BBC Radio 4 (28 February); The Tablet (8 March); Spiked (18 March); Night Waves, BBC Radio 3 (19 March); RTE Radio, Dublin (31 March); Spiked (4 April); Radio Ulster (4 April); Daily Telegraph (5 April); Spiked (11 April); FrontPage magazine.com (US) (29 April); Spiked (9 May); LifeSiteNews.com (US) (13 May); PeopleandPlanet.net (22 May); Green Christian (Summer); Food Magazine (Must the planet go hungry? David Nicholson-Lord) (June); Daily Telegraph (6 June); Observer (29 June); Daily Telegraph, Eastern Daily Press, PlanningResource, Spiked (30 June); RH Reality Check (US) (8 July); News, BBC Radio 4, Today, BBC Radio 4, News Talk Radio, Dublin (11 July); World News, BBC Television (12 July); Independent, Guardian Online, LifeSiteNews (15 July); Radio Colorado (16 July); Simon Mayo Show, BBC Radio 5 (22 July); EurekAlert, US (24 July); British Medical Journal, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, The Scotsman; Today, BBC Radio 4, World at One, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5; Radio Foyle, Premier Christian Radio, BBC World Service, OnMedica News, Rinnovabili, Milan (25 July); The Guardian, Express & Echo, Exeter (26 July); In Spirit, BBC Radio London; TheRegister.co.uk (27 July); Science Daily, US (28 July); The Times (29 July); Late Show, BBC London (31 July); LBC (3 August); Stop.hu, Budapest (4 August); Libertad Digital, Spain (5 August); The Universe (6 August); Daily Telegraph (22 August); Daily Telegraph, Richard Bacon Show, BBC Radio 5 (27 August); Independent (28 August); The Economist (29 August); Irish Times (4 September); The Times (9 September); Spiked (10 September); Sunday Herald, Scotland (14 September); The Independent (19 September); Mother and Baby (September); Bella (Should we stop at two kids? Debate, Rosamund McDougall, Anne Diamond, 28 October); Resurgence ( The Silence of the Greens, David Nicholson-Lord, November-December); BBC News, Scotland (3 November); BBC Radio 4, The World Tonight (24 December).

2007: Adbusters ( The Great Urban Outdoors, David Nicholson-Lord, Jan/Feb 2007, Big Ideas of 2007); Resurgence (London conundrum, David Nicholson-Lord, March-April, 2007); The Observer (No one is willing to address the accelerating growth in the world's population, Juliette Jowit, 18 March 2007); The Guardian Online (The numbers game, David Pallister, 21 March 2007); BBC News Online (How ethical is my baby? Justin Rowlatt, 30 March 2007); The Ecologist (Population the number one issue, Jonathon Porritt, April 2007); The Independent (How to save the planet, Guy Adams, 19 April 2007); Sunday Times, BBC Radio 4 (6 May 2007); The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Sun, Belfast Telegraph, BBC Radio 5 Live, Sky Radio: Fox News, CitizenLink, WDC Media News, Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck, National Review Online (all US); The Age (Melbourne), The Australian (7 May 2007); BBC Radio2, Jeremy Vine Show; Daily Grist, LifeSiteNews.com (US); Radio Canberra (8 May 2007); Galway Independent; Action Institute, The Conservative Voice, Alex Jones Show (Radio) (US); New Zealand Herald; Melbourne Talk Radio, Australia (9 May 2007); The Dominion Post, New Zealand; Baptist Press, WorldNetDaily (US) (11 May 2007); Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Argus (Fremont, California) (13 May 2007); Sydney Morning Herald, National Post (Canada), Hindustan Times (14 May 2007); CNSNews.com, Crosswalk.com (US) (17 May 2007); The New York Sun (18 May 2007); Restoring the Balance (Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio), Youth Talk Radio (Melbourne, Australia),The Observer (20 May 2007); CFRO Radio, Vancouver (23 May 2007); Indianapolis Star (28 May 2007); Newstalk Radio (Ireland) (30 May 2007); The Guardian (7 June 2007); Sunday Times (10 June 2007); Stuttgarter Nachrichten (13 June 2007); Guardian Online (14 June 2007); Enter Stage Right (US) (18 June 2007); Daily Telegraph, Spiked (27 June 2007); New Statesman (28 June 2007); The Spark, E-debate (Engineers Against Poverty) (Newsletter 10, July 2007); Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 (5 July 2007); Sunday Times, Australia (7 July 2007); The Independent (10 July 2007); The Guardian (Citizens Arrest, David Nicholson-Lord, 11 July 2007); The Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC4 TV News/World News Today, BBC World Radio, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC News 24, Sky News Radio, LBC Radio, Radio Midlands, Raisingkids News; Melbourne Age, Herald Sun (Australia); Digital Journal (US); Islamic Republic News Agency (Iran) (11 July 2007); The Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC Radio Ulster, Bounty News; Media Matters for America, Huffington Post, Lifesite (US) (12 July 2007); UKParents Lounge; BBC TV Breakfast, BBC Radio Wales, The Times, Kaiser Network News (US) (13 July 2007); Peopleandplanet.net (14 July 2007); Sunday Times; Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times (Populating and perishing, David Nicholson-Lord) (15 July 2007); New York Sun, Lifenews, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (US) (16 July 2007); People’s Media Company (US) (18 July 2007); The Guardian, Nursery World, National Public Radio (US), CNSNews.com (US) (19 July 2007); The Tablet (21 July 2007); The Observer (22 July 2007); CitizenLink (US) (24 July 2007); National Public Radio (US) (25 July 2007); RH Reality Check(US)(27 July 2007); Sunday Times (29 July 2007); FrontPage Magazine (US) (31 July 2007); Radio Newcastle (1 August 2007); Talking Politics, BBC Radio 4 (11 August 2007); The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Metro, New Statesman, Zeenews.com (India)(23 August 2007); Guardian Weekly, Times of India (24 August 2007); Significance (Journal of Royal Statistical Society, The sustainability of populations, Martin Desvaux, September 2007); The Ecologist (September 2007); Newconsumer.com, The Press (York) (4 September 2007); The Guardian (Greens need to grasp the nettle: aren't there just too many people? Madeleine Bunting, 10 September 2007); The Guardian Online (20 September 2007); Costing The Earth, BBC Radio 4 (27 September 2007); One Planet, BBC World Service (14 October 2007); Herald Sun (Melbourne) (19 October 2007); World At One, BBC Radio 4; BBC News 24, Channel 4 News, BBC News Online, Colourful Radio (23 October 2007); The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Daily Express, Daily Mirror (24 October 2007); Daily Telegraph (25 October 2007); Today, BBC Radio 4; The Economist, The Independent (26 October 2007); Financial Times (29 October 2007); The Guardian Online (1 November 2007); Reporting Religion, BBC World Service (4 November 2007); The Independent (6 November 2007); The Observer (Three’s a crowd, Juliette Jowit, 11 November 2007); Spiked (November 2007); Radio Five Live (20 November 2007); National Catholic Register (US) (25 November 2007); Express & Echo, Exeter (26 November 2007); BBC News 24 (27 November 2007); Herald Sun (Australia) (28 November 2007); Daily Mail, Scotland (7 December 2007); Daily Telegraph (12 December 2007); Radio Five Live (13 December 2007); National Review (US) (16 December 2007); The Times (18 December 2007); FrontPage Magazine (US) (19 December 2007).

2006: The Independent: Overpopulation "is main threat to planet" (Steve Connor, 7 Jan 2006); The Observer: Is it ethical to have children? (Lucy Siegle, 22 Jan 2006); The Guardian (15 February 2006); BBC Radio Scotland (15 February 2006); BBC Radio 4: Today (16 February 2006); Science and Public Affairs (British Association for the Advancement of Science) (March 2006); Daily Express (2 May 2006); Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Metro, BBC World Service - Network Africa, The Scotsman, Evening News (Edinburgh), Daily Telegraph (Australia), Gulf Times (Qatar), Zee News(India), News24 (South Africa), NewKerala.com, India, Yahoo!News.com, Lanka Business Online (Sri Lanka) (30 May 2006); Dominion Post (New Zealand), DailyIndia.com (New York), Nerve News(India) (31 May 2006); Financial Express (Bangladesh) (01 June 2006); BBC World Service, World Business Review (17/18 June 2006); BBC 1 (Television), Breakfast (20 Jun 2006); Challenge (Green Liberal Democrat magazine, Population - the ghost at the table, David Nicholson-Lord, Summer 2006); Biologist (Institute of Biology, Overpopulation denial is a fatal game, Rosamund McDougall, June 2006); Resurgence (Blind spot, David Nicholson-Lord, July-August 2006); Sky Radio News, Real Radio (Scotland), Colourful Radio (11 July 2006); Guardian (12 July 2006); BBC News Magazine Online (Shrinking office syndrome, 20 July 2006); Daily Mail (22 July 2006); Daily Telegraph (26 July 2006); Daily Express (31 July 2006); BBC Radio 4: The World Tonight, Channel Four: More 4 News, Three Counties Radio (24 August 2006); Daily Express, Three Counties Radio (25 August 2006); Radio Manchester (26 August); The Ecologist (The Numbers Game, David Nicholson-Lord, October 2006); Glasgow Herald (21 Oct 2006); Capital Doctor (Rage, rage against the dying of the light, obituary of Jack Parsons, by Rosamund McDougall, November 2006); Capital Doctor (Hardinian taboo, November 2006); Capital Doctor ( Oppressive environments and middle-class flight, David Nicholson-Lord, December 2006).

2005: Geographical magazine (Andrew Brackenbury, Mar 2005); New Statesman: Labour can beat the fear factor (25 Apr 2005); The Independent: The green issue that dare not speak its name (David Nicholson-Lord, 20 Jun 2005); The Week (25 Jun 2005); Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mail (25 Aug 2005); The Times T2 (29 Aug 2005); New Scientist (1 Oct 2005); BBC Radio 4: Home Planet (27 Sep & 4 Oct 2005); The Guardian, Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, BBC World Service: Europe Today (21 Oct 2005); Guardian: Society (26 Oct 2005); Whatever happened to the teeming millions? (David Nicholson-Lord, Green Futures, Nov 2005).

2004: Sunday Times Magazine (Richard Girling, 15 Feb 2004); BBC World Service (Mar 2004); Oxford Times (Jul 2004); Free Inquiry magazine, USA (Europe's baby bust - what problem? Rosamund McDougall); The Guardian (Crowd control, Walter Schwarz, 1 Sep 2004); The Independent (Sep 2004); The Fewer the Better New Statesman (David Nicholson-Lord, 8 Nov 04, shortlisted for the David Watt prize).

2003: OpenDemocracy ( Mass immigration: a route to environmental collapse, Rosamund McDougall, 22 May 2003); Sunday Times (John Humphreys), The Times ( You don't save the world by having a headache , Magnus Linklater), The Guardian (We should welcome signs of a shrinking population, Martin Woollacott), BBC Radio 4: Talking Politics, BBC TV: Newsnight, Daily Mail, Sunday Times (Attenborough: cut human population, Jonathan Leake) ; The Observer (Juliette Jowit) (Aug 2003), BBC Radio 4: The World Tonight, GP Magazine (29 Sep 2003); BBC World Service (Nov 2003); Hello! magazine, BBC Radio 4 (Dec 2003).

2002: The Times (Britain better off with half the people, Anthony Browne, Oct 2002), New Statesman (Pop the Pill and think of England, Anthony Browne), BBC Radio 4: You and Yours (Nov 2002), BBC Radio 4: The Westminster Hour (Dec 2002).

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