The refuge contains the largest wintering population of elk in the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The higher intake of livestock products, the report says, is the result of rising population, urbanization and increasing affluence in many parts of the world.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

He says it is increasingly important to do this analysis in connection with urbanization because more than half of the world population lives in urban areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"The Japanese,in my opinion, are the healthiest population in the world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Helping breeders quickly develop better varieties of all these crops will be crucial as the world population tops 9 billion by 2050 in the face of a changing climate.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Some economists say prices for rice, the staple food for much of the world's population, could be returning to levels that sparked inflation fears in much of Asia last year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

The U.N.Fund for Population Activity and the World Health Organization are working with national ministries of health in a global campaign to end fistula that now covers more than 40 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia,and the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23