Agriculture
- UN report: As the world’s forests continue to shrink, urgent action is needed to safeguard their biodiversity
- FAO Director-General says the fight against Desert Locusts will take time, despite significant control gains
- First International Tea Day sees call for joint action to ensure sustainability of tea sector
- World Bee Day 2020: FAO calls for more to be done to safeguard our tiny food heroes, amid alarming decline
- FAO needs $350 million to avert rising hunger as countries reel from COVID-19 pandemic’s impact
- FAO makes gains in the fight against Desert Locusts in East Africa and Yemen but threat of a food security crisis remains
- Global food commodity prices drop further in April
- Forest loss slows globally as sustainable management grows
- COVID-19: Using economic stimulus to reduce the long-term hunger impact
- Despite the threat of COVID-19 pandemic, FAO’s work in Syria carries on – helping farmers grow food and get back on their feet
Climate
- Shrinking forests need bold action to safeguard their biodiversity
- Build back better and preserve biodiversity after COVID-19 pandemic: UN chief
- FROM THE FIELD: Nature ‘strongest ally’ to building sustainable planet
- Cultivating a taste for traditional crops in Hawaii
- Deadly gas leak in India, grim wake-up call for global chemical industry: UN rights expert
- UN sustainable energy project in Ukraine finds a new role: fighting COVID-19
- Moving towards 100% renewable power (with a little help from sheep)
- FROM THE FIELD: Women act as ‘agents of change’ in climate emergency
- Parallel threats of COVID-19 and climate change require ‘brave, visionary and collaborative leadership’, says UN chief
- Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won’t halt climate change - UN weather agency chief
Atmosphere
- Warming shrivels future snowstorms
- Amplified transboundary transport of haze by aerosol–boundary layer interaction in China
- Significant Day-time Ionospheric Perturbation by Thunderstorms along the West African and Congo Sector of Equatorial Region
- Changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature variability shaped by regional warming patterns
- Publisher Correction: Reduced European aerosol emissions suppress winter extremes over northern Eurasia
- Multilayer hazes over Saturn’s hexagon from Cassini ISS limb images
- Determination of Cloud-top Height through Three-dimensional Cloud Reconstruction using DIWATA-1 Data
- On the interchangeability of sea-surface and near-surface air temperature anomalies in climatologies
- Synchronized tropical Pacific and extratropical variability during the past three decades
- Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America
Renewable sources
- Energy Transition at the Heart of Africa’s COVID-19 Response say High-Level Dialogue Participants
- IRENA and UAE Mission Co-host First Session of ‘Renewables Talk’
- IRENA and ESCAP Step Up Joint Efforts to Support Asia-Pacific’s Crisis Response
- GROWTH@IRENA Traineeship Programme 2020
- IRENA's Coalition for Action Calls for Green Recovery Based on Renewables
- Renewable Energy Can Support Resilient and Equitable Recovery
- Beyond crisis: Renewable energy for a low-carbon future
- African Union and IRENA to Advance Renewables in Response to COVID-19
- IRENA Reschedules the Nineteenth Council Meeting
- Staying on Course: Renewable Energy in the Time of COVID-19