This year's winners include the Republic of Costa Rica for its work in doubling the size of its forests, and the Indian social enterprise Takachar, which has created technology that attaches to farmers' tractors and reduces smoke emissions by 98%. Milan, Italy, was the winner of the waste-free world category, based on its citywide food waste policy that recovers 130 tons of food per year through its three food waste hubs. The final winner is AEM Electrolyser technology made by Germany-based Enapter, which turns renewable electricity into emission-free hydrogen gas. Coral Vita, a winner from the Bahamas, grows coral on land to replant in oceans, giving new life to dying ecosystems.



Prince William has announced the winners of the first Earthshot Prize, an ambitious program designed to develop ideas and technologies to protect the environment and fight back against the climate crisis. Five winners were awarded Ј1 million ($1.4M) at a star-studded event in London on Sunday after being chosen by a council of celebrities, environmentalists, technologists and philanthropists for their scalable solutions to environmental challenges.

Nobody changed the rules to get them in the debate.'   'That is what being a multi-billionaire is about,' Sanders 'Some very good friends of mine who were competing in the Democratic nomination - people like Cory Booker of New Jersey, Julian Castro - work really, really hard.



The plan, which the Trudeau administration proposed, would see Canada joining the state of California and countries like the United Kingdom (though the UK's plan is even more ambitious, giving itself five fewer years to meet its goal) in shifting toward electric vehicles.



Sport hunter Khan has been a controversial figure with his penchant for wild animals and guns. As alleged in some reports, he had been arrested by police in 1991-92 for supplying weapons to Maoists along the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border.

In February this year, a leopard was burnt to death by locals in Gujarat's Gir-Somnath district. In another case in November 2016, videos of which went viral, a leopard was battered to death with sticks by irate villagers when it strayed into Gurugram's Sohna district. 

A separate new study from Aarhus University, in Denmark, looking at how much exposure players would have to a single infected player on the field, showed that, on average, a player is positioned within an 'exposure zone' for one minute and 28 seconds during a match.



"The finalists and winners that we've recognized this evening remind us that we do have an incredible ability to turn the improbable into reality if we work together." "There is reason to be filled with hope and even optimism about our future," said Kerry.

It gives out a very wrong message, especially when a government forest department is involved.'  Dr Sarita wondered: 'How could they allow taking selfies with the dead cat? Even as per the Wildlife Protection Act, (WPA) 1972, display of hunted animal trophies is banned.

Instead of the aiming for the moon, the goal of the Earthshot Prize is to galvanize people around the world to design solutions that will protect the Earth for future generations. It will be awarded every year until 2030. Kennedy's moonshot project, which catalyzed the technology world to put humans on the moon back in the 1960s. The Earthshot Prize was founded by the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and was inspired by John F.

Siobhan McLaughlin, 46, was refused the benefit after her partner John Adams died from cancer in January 2014 because the couple, who had four children and were together for 23 years, were not married or in a civil pa



"We are committed to aligning Canada's zero-emission vehicles sales targets with those of the most ambitious North American jurisdictions," Canadian Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement.

Its last claimed victims were a boy and a 70-year-old woman.  The female sub-adult cat is alleged to have mauled to death seven people in the last three to four months in Chalisgaon taluka near Nashik.



"The pattern of breathing during strenuous exercise changes dramatically by a tremendous increase of ventilation (i.e.: inspiratory and expiratory volumes of air), and of alveolar ventilation in particular," the authors state.

"We need guidance and protocols on how to return in a healthy and safe manner. Soccer's global players' union FIFPro has also urged caution. Football is a contact sport and we feel very high protection standards are required," said FIFPro secretary general Jonas Baer-Hoffmann.

This year's ceremony came just weeks before the UK is set to host COP26, the world's most important climate summit. His announcement was followed by a message from the US special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry.  The next Earthshot Prize ceremony is set to take place in the US in 2022, Prince William said at the end of the event.