• Sydney to take centre stage for global climate action with Inaugural Climate Action Week

    Sydney is set to follow in the footsteps of London and New York to stake its claim as one of the world’s leading climate action cities with the inaugural Climate Action Week Sydney taking place between May 13-19 2024.

  • Taking on climate change, Rad Lab style

    When I last wrote, the Institute had just announced MIT’s Climate Project. Now that it’s underway, I’d like to tell you a bit more about how we came to launch this ambitious new enterprise.  In the fall of 2022, as soon as I accepted the president’s job at MIT, several of my oldest friends spontaneously…

  • AI to take center stage at Possible conference this week

    At least 21 different sessions across the three days that Possible takes place — all in the halls of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel— feature the capital letters AI In their headlines. And the topic will be pretty inescapable in most of the conversations that take place onstage or around the event.

  • Catan Board Game Takes on Climate Change in Latest Version

    In an innovative twist to the classic board game, the latest version of Catan introduces a compelling element: climate change.

  • Letters to the Editor: The climate situation is bad but not hopeless. We must fight for change

    To the editor: The Times' editorial board issues yet another dire warning about the health of our planet. Record-breaking heat due to fossil fuel emissions shows we are headed in the wrong direction. These grim facts might leave readers discouraged and hopeless. While there is damage that we may not be able to fix, it's not too late to heal our Earth. Indeed, we have seen other seemingly hopeless situations change. My grandmothers couldn't vote when they came of age. There were racial covenants...

  • Boston takes center stage Monday for the 'most prestigious marathon in the world'

    On Monday, nearly 30,000 runners are expected to race the 128th Boston Marathon from the starting line painted near the Hopkinton town green to the course’s finish on Boylston Street in Copley Square, with more than a half-million spectators cheering them on along the route.

  • Cadiz’s urban rooftop rice farming takes center stage in Negros Occidental

    Cadiz takes the concept of green spaces one step further by converting a 105-square meter rooftop of one of over two dozen pavilions in a park into a rice paddy

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    China sees foreign threats ‘everywhere’ as powerful spy agency takes center stage

    In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere. As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a food delivery driver – he even sets up an online honey trap – to glean sensitive state secrets in various places and industries. “In the sea of people, you may have never noticed him. His identity is...

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    China sees foreign threats ‘everywhere’ as powerful spy agency takes center stage

    By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere. As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a

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    China sees foreign threats ‘everywhere’ as powerful spy agency takes center stage

    By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere. As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a

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    China sees foreign threats ‘everywhere’ as powerful spy agency takes center stage

    By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere. As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a

  • 'Mortifying personal details' have Trump on edge as hush money trial takes center stage

    Following a string of courthouse losses that have cost Donald Trump hundreds of millions in fines, the former president will finally enter a courtroom on Monday to face 34 felony counts that could lead to prison time and that reality is weighing heavily upon him, reports the New York Times.On the day before the former president will attend the beginning of his so-called "hush money" trial related to paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair before the...