Agriculture
- Latin America and the Caribbean are “pillar for world food security”
- Fight against fall armyworm: good progress, more efforts needed
- FAO and the African Union Commission launch a guide to help countries enter Africa's new single market
- Food Coalition gains momentum as food security is featured on the G20 agenda
- FAO Director-General QU Dongyu designates European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet FAO Goodwill Ambassador
- Signs of hope in East Africa, as control campaign tames locust upsurge
- FAO's flagship Hand-In-Hand initiative aimed at eradicating poverty and hunger builds momentum
- Global food prices rise for 10th month in a row
- Global initiative tackles marine litter to clean up the world’s oceans
- Scale of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo “staggering”, FAO, WFP warn
Climate
- Guterres urges cities to embrace ‘generational opportunity’ for climate action, sustainable development
- UN atomic energy agency to work with Japan on Fukushima water disposal
- FROM THE FIELD: Solar energy powers COVID-19 treatment
- Paris goals still ‘long way off’, says President of UN climate conference
- New project to help 30 developing countries tackle marine litter scourge
- Renewable energy access key to climate adaptation in Africa: UN chief
- Climate change top challenge over the next decade, UNESCO global survey finds
- More climate action needed during ‘make-or-break year’ for people and planet
- Plastic pollution disproportionately hitting marginalized groups, UN environment report finds
- Guterres calls on US to lead global vaccination plan effort, climate action
Atmosphere
- Quantifying monsoon uncertainty
- Small lightning flashes from shallow electrical storms on Jupiter
- Author Correction: Increased impacts on US West Coast
- Diurnal self-aggregation
- Inter- and intra-annual wind speed variabilities in wide valley regions of the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, China
- Importance of a vertically tilting structure for energizing the North Atlantic Oscillation
- Night-time measurements of astronomical seeing at Dome A in Antarctica
- Aerosol-driven seasonality
- North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply
- Transport pathways across the West African Monsoon as revealed by Lagrangian Coherent Structures
Renewable sources
- Eastern and Southern Africa's Vast Renewables Potential Offers Route to Sustainable Growth
- IRENA and China State Grid Agree to Advance Transition Through Power System Enhancements
- World Adds Record New Renewable Energy Capacity in 2020
- IRENA's Francesco La Camera and US Climate Envoy John Kerry Meet to Discuss Energy Transition
- Permanent Representatives Discuss Accelerated Energy Transition in line with IRENA Outlook
- Wind and Solar Can Improve Energy Security and Independence in Albania
- How Renewables Offer New Solutions for District Heating and Cooling
- Fast-Track Energy Transitions to Win the Race to Zero
- Renewables Can Lower Energy Costs and Boost Energy Security in Antigua and Barbuda
- The IDB and IRENA Foster a Sustainable Energy Future in Latin America and the Caribbean