Agriculture
- As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns
- FAO Council approves new measures to reform the UN agency
- EcorNaturaSí and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat to boost rural, mountain, forest and island communities’ livelihoods
- FAO welcomes additional €15 million from the European Union to fight Desert Locusts and their impacts on food security
- FAO and Rabobank's new partnership focuses on helping make food systems more sustainable, including through innovative investments
- Director-General proposes new structure to make FAO agile and efficient
- FAO partners with the Adaptation Fund to help vulnerable countries fight the impact of climate change
- Global food commodity prices rebound in June
- Traditional bamboo cultivation system in the Republic of Korea earns place on global agricultural heritage sites list
- Time to scale up and support Africa’s Great Green Wall
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
- TAASRAD19, a high-resolution weather radar reflectivity dataset for precipitation nowcasting
- Sending hope to Mars
- Effects of climate change on the movement of future landfalling Texas tropical cyclones
- Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions
- Radioisotopes demonstrate changes in global atmospheric circulation possibly caused by global warming
- Regional monsoon changes
- Increased melting level height impacts surface precipitation phase and intensity
- Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades
- Increased impacts on US West Coast
- Warming reaches the South Pole
Renewable sources
- 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
- Renewables Increasingly Beat Even Cheapest Coal Competitors on Cost
- How Falling Costs Make Renewables a Cost-effective Investment
- SIDS to Align Renewables Ambition with Recovery Efforts to Rebuild Economies
- COVID-19 Intensifies the Urgency to Expand Sustainable Energy Solutions Worldwide
- SDG 7 at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery