Population boom increasing global food crisis
ABC News - Australia
Hania Zlotnik, director of the population division in the UN department of economic and social affairs, says the rate of growth has got the UN's attention. "What is astounding is that the last two billion have been reached in record time," she said. …(4 May 2011)

Earth's Population to Reach 7 Billion in 2011
ABC News - USA
A clock is ticking. Sometime late this year, the United Nations Population Division predicts that with about five babies born every second, the world will have 7 billion people. …(5 January 2011)