In a candid interview with National Geographic, actor and Water.org co-founder Matt Damon discusses the global water crisis and his nonprofit's mission to end open-air defecation. Despite

In a candid interview with National Geographic, actor and Water.org co-founder Matt Damon discusses the global water crisis and his nonprofit's mission to end open-air defecation. Despite significant progress, nearly 950 million people still practice this public health hazard. Damon hopes that solutions like microfinancing will make open-air defecation a thing of the past by 2030.

Water.org promotes access to safe water and sanitation. Learn more at Water.org. This interview complements National Geographic's August 2017 story "A Place to Go": National Geographic Magazine.

Watch the full interview: Exclusive: Matt Damon Gets Emotional About Global Water Crisis. Subscribe to National Geographic: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe.

The Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond, hosted virtually by the Women’s Earth and Climate Network (WECAN) from June 23-28, 2025, convened over 125

The Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond, hosted virtually by the Women’s Earth and Climate Network (WECAN) from June 23-28, 2025, convened over 125 grassroots and frontline women leaders, global advocates, and policymakers from 50 countries. This forum featured 25 unique panels showcasing diverse visions, projects, and strategies to accelerate a transformative path to a healthy and just world, with interpretation available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Among the key sessions was the panel “Healing Justice in the Climate Crisis: Restoring Mind, Body, and Spirit,” held on June 25th. Panelists included Cara Page (Changing Frequencies, Healing Histories Project, Turtle Island/USA), Zainab Salbi (Daughters for Earth, Turtle Island/USA), Dr. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa (Ancestral Traditional Medicine, Bolivia), Nina Simons (Bioneers, Turtle Island/USA), and Daiara Tukano (Indigenous activist and artist, Brazil). Resources shared during this panel and across the entire Assembly are available here.

Join renowned climate scientist and CCL Advisory Board Member Dr. Katharine Hayhoe for an exclusive conversation about her new book, "Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in

Join renowned climate scientist and CCL Advisory Board Member Dr. Katharine Hayhoe for an exclusive conversation about her new book, "Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World."

In "Saving Us," Dr. Hayhoe offers an optimistic, inclusive approach, demonstrating that climate change affects everyone. She argues that collective action arises from connecting with communities based on shared values, not doomsday scenarios.

Order the book here. Further resources include her TIME Essay, Global Weirding on YouTube, and Yale's Research. Dr. Hayhoe is Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Texas Tech Professor.

Challenging the resource-intensive "bigger is better" trend of Large Language Models (LLMs), this webinar introduced the Expressive Neural Network (ENN). This novel architecture rethinks

Challenging the resource-intensive "bigger is better" trend of Large Language Models (LLMs), this webinar introduced the Expressive Neural Network (ENN). This novel architecture rethinks activation functions using classical signal processing (Discrete Cosine Transform), resulting in enhanced flexibility, faster convergence, and significantly smaller, more energy-efficient AI models.

ENNs demonstrate how traditional signal processing can inspire next-generation AI, enabling efficient edge computing in resource-constrained environments. This approach prioritizes expressiveness over sheer size for future neural networks. The webinar featured speaker Ana Pérez-Neira, moderated by Ian F. Akyildiz and Alessia Magliarditi. It was organized by the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU-J FET).

As 5G rolls out, attention shifts to 6G, the next generation of wireless technology. This international race aims for significantly higher data rates, improved reliability, and ubiquitous

As 5G rolls out, attention shifts to 6G, the next generation of wireless technology. This international race aims for significantly higher data rates, improved reliability, and ubiquitous coverage, including underserved areas. Achieving this requires innovations in new architectures like edge computing, reduced latency, breakthrough energy efficiency, and machine learning.

A webinar, organized by the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET), will describe this wireless future. Speaker Andrea J. Goldsmith (Princeton University) will discuss the necessary innovations and breakthroughs. The ITU J-FET is a free international journal covering communications and networking.

Discover the journal: ITU J-FET. Explore the full webinar series: ITU Journal Webinars.

Food authority Mark Bittman explores how industrialized food production has driven global health crises and climate change. He offers a panoramic view of this history, explaining how we can rescue

Food authority Mark Bittman explores how industrialized food production has driven global health crises and climate change. He offers a panoramic view of this history, explaining how we can rescue ourselves from modern missteps.

With over three decades in global food culture and policy, Bittman is known for his "How to Cook Everything" series and thirty-plus books, including Animal, Vegetable, Junk. A fellow at Yale and on Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health faculty, he also edits The Mark Bittman Project and has received multiple James Beard and IACP Awards.

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