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This autumn, the world's human population will pass seven billion. Researchers are trying to identify the geographic hotspots where people and climate change are on a collision course.

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  • 30 September 2011

    In the version of this News Feature originally published, CIESIN should have been included in the credits for the panels in Box 2; this has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions.

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Smith, K. We are seven billion. Nature Clim Change 1, 331–335 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1235

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