Infertility

• Count down: The infertility crisis – EHN
• Fertility crisis leaves little time for solution – Environmental Health News
• Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born – BBC News
• Global Fertility Crisis Has Governments Scrambling for an Answer – Bloomberg
• How plastics are making us infertile — and could even lead to human extinction – Salon.com
• How To Prevent America’s Looming Fertility Crisis – On Point – NPR
• North America’s Infertility Crisis – Women’s Voice

• Pesticides and Infertility: Why Organic Food Might Be Better for Sperm – Time

• Pollutants Linked to Lower Fertility in Both Men and Women – Time

• Reproductive Problems in Both Men and Women Are Rising at an Alarming Rate – Scientific American
• Shanna Swan- ‘Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045’ – Fertility problems – The Guardian
• The infertility crisis is beyond doubt. Now scientists must find the cause – The Guardian
• There’s a ‘looming healthcare crisis for the millennial generation’ — and it’s just getting started – Insider
• This Chemical Can Impair Fertility, but It’s Hard to Avoid – The New York Times
• Toxic Chemicals Threaten Ability to Reproduce – The Intercept
• U.S. fertility rate plummets to new record low – LifeSite

• U.S. Fertility Rate Reaches a Record Low – The New York Times

• Will The Fertility Rate Recover? Probably Not, A New Study Says – Forbes
• World’s sperm are in trouble – The Straits Times

TV Special Report

Male Infertility

• An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the Future of the Human Race, and the Chemicals Likely Responsible Are Everywhere – GQ
• Brink of a fertility crisis: Scientist says plummeting sperm counts caused by everyday products – wtsp.com
• Experts sound the alarm on declining birth rates among younger generations- “It’s a crisis” – CBS News
• Expert Warns of Possible Fertility Crisis Due to Falling Sperm Counts – Newsmax.com
• Falling sperm counts could threaten the human race. A new book blames chemicals for a drop in global sperm counts – Axios
• Falling sperm counts ‘threaten human survival’, expert warns – US news – The Guardian
• Human sperm count dwindling, penis shrinking at alarming rate, scientist warns – Inquirer Technology
• Inside the Male Fertility Crisis – Men’s Health
• Male fertility: How everyday chemicals are destroying sperm counts in humans and animals – ABC News
• Male Infertility Crisis in U.S. Has Experts Baffled – Newsweek
• Male infertility crisis: Most men in the US, Europe, and Australia could be infertile by 2060 — Quartz
• Male fertility crisis: Obesity, smoking and exposure to plastics are to blame for huge drop in sperm quality, scientists say as rate of men who may need treatment to conceive soars – Daily Mail Online
• Men’s Sperm Counts are Dropping Worldwide: Study – Time
• Opinion – A Male Infertility Crisis Is Coming. The Middle East Can Help. – The New York Times
• Plummeting sperm counts are threatening the future of human existence, and plastics could be to blame – Insider
• Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises- toxic chemicals threaten humanity – Erin Brockovich – The Guardian
• Sperm Count Zero A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades: We’ve become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely. What’s causing this mysterious drop in sperm counts—and is there any way to reverse it before it’s too late? – GQ
• Sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years – study – The Guardian
• Sperm counts are falling precipitously across the rich world – The Economist
• Sperm Counts Countinue to Fall. Scientists are coming to a consensus that men in America and Europe are experiencing a worsening decrease in fertility. They disagree, however, about why. – The Atlantic
• Sperm Counts Plummet In Western Men, Study Finds – NPR
• Swiss men have among the lowest sperm counts in Europe: Scientists warn semen is in a ‘critical state’ which could damage fertility and raise cancer risk – Daily Mail Online
• The male infertility crisis: ‘My failure at fatherhood ate away at my very being’ – The Guardian
• The male infertility timebomb: One in ten men has problems fathering a child, so what are the disturbing reasons behind this growing health crisis?  – Daily Mail Online
• Why more men are suffering from infertility than ever before – New York Post

Female Infertility

• 1 in 8 women experience infertility – Fox News
• American Women Are Facing An Infertility Crisis – Fortune
• Female Infertility: What to Do and How to Cope – The New York Times
• Fertility rate for white women plummets BELOW the limit needed to maintain the population in every single US state – Daily Mail Online
• The Global Infertility Crisis: Women around the world are finding it more and more difficult to conceive, creating what one expert calls an “infertility time bomb.”  – The Daily Beast

Interviews and Webinars

Facts and Stats

• Fast Facts – RESOLVE- The National Infertility Association
• FastStats – Infertility – CDC
• Fertility Rates In The United States By Ethnicity – WorldAtlas
• Fertility – US Census Bureau
• Infertility – Reproductive Health – CDC
• Number of Infertile by State – RESOLVE- The National Infertility Association
• Total fertility rate by ethnicity U.S. 2019 – Statista
• United States- fertility rate 1800-2020 – Statista

Academic Papers

• IS THE DROP IN FERTILITY TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT? – Center for Retirement Research at Boston College – PDF
• Temporal trends in sperm count- a systematic review and meta-regression analysis – Human Reproduction Update – Oxford Academic
• Testicular dysgenesis syndrome- an increasingly common developmental disorder with environmental aspects- Opinion – Oxford Academic
• Sperm counts and fertility in men- a rocky road ahead- Science & Society Series on Sex and Science- EMBO reports
• Temporal trends in sperm count- a systematic review and meta-regression analysis – Human Reproduction Update – Oxford Academic

Website

• Dr. Shanna Swan