Agriculture
- Global food prices rise in July
- FAO-led global COVID-19 Food Coalition gains momentum
- IKEA Foundation contributes $3.5 million to support FAO's work with refugees and host communities in eastern Africa
- FAO unveils platform to help accelerate action on reducing food loss and waste
- Kenya beats back desert locust upsurge for now, but East Africa remains at risk
- FAO and Russian Federation sign Contribution Agreement to ramp up fight against desert locusts, help affected communities
- United Kingdom supports FAO's desert locust-fighting efforts with £ 17 million contribution
- FAO and Islamic Development Bank strengthen partnership with new cooperation agreement
- Yemen sees return to alarming levels of food insecurity
- World's most comprehensive analysis of forest resources launched today in an innovative format
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
- 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
- IRENA develops guidelines for cooperation with the private sector
- Winner of IRENA Youth Video Contest Announced
- 30 Innovative Solutions Show Path to Renewable-Powered Future
- Innovation - A Game Changer for Power System Flexibility
- MPs Discuss How Renewables Can Address COVID-19 and Support Development Goals
- IRENA Outlines Key Actions Needed to Accelerate Renewables in Lebanon
- OLADE and IRENA Put Renewables at Heart of Economic Recovery in Latin America and Caribbean
- ADGM Inks Partnership with IRENA to Promote Sustainable Finance
- IRENA Puts Energy Transformation at Heart of Sustainable Recovery Agenda
- Meet the Permanent Representative of Uganda to IRENA