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UNESCO’s photo contest on The Changing Face of the Earth has been won by 15 year-old Muatez Nasser Al-Adwan from Jordan and, in the adult category, by Anil Risal Singh from India. The contest was organized within the International Year of Planet Earth, which set out to highlight the utility of geosciences for society.

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  • ©UNESCO - Photo taken during the Exhibition for the International Year of Planet Earth (UNESCO HQs-2008)

Each contestant was invited to submit a photo depicting positive or negative changes to the Earth’s landscape. The photos could portray rural or urban scenes and landscapes changed either by natural phenomena or resulting from human invention.

Each first-prize winner receives a digital camera, in addition to the two UNESCO books which will be distributed to all 40 winners: Explaining the Earth and The Changing Face of the Earth.

Contestants were asked to portray one of the ten themes of the International Year of Planet Earth: soil; groundwater; hazards, Earth and health, climate change, resource issues, megacities, the deep Earth, the Ocean and Earth and life.

The winner's photos and those which received an honorable mention are now online under two categories:

  • the category 15 – 20 years old
  • the category 21 years old and over
  • The winners of the photo contest were announced in UNESCO’s quarterly newsletter, A World of Science, Vol. n°1, in January 2009. The winning photos will be published in future issues of the newsletter.

    For details, contact the Editor of A World of Science

     

     
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