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Lefteris Arapakis comes from a long line of fishers. For five generations his family has plied the bountiful waters off southern Greece, netting the same cod and red mulls that have sustained Greeks for millennia.

In the two years since Adam Dixon won the Young Champions of the Earth prize back in 2017, he has taken great strides in his mission to grow food using fewer resources.

Rewilding is an approach to conservation that lets nature return areas of land to a wild state. The process involves allowing ecosystems to restore themselves over time, so they can recover from degradation.

Lush and green ancient forest is not what most people imagine when thinking of Russia. But despite living a fast-paced city life, Marianna Muntianu knew the reality all too well. It was visiting her grandmother that she discovered tall emerald alpine forests with thick canopies, home to abundant mushrooms and berries which they would pick together.

Twenty-nine-year-old Marianna wins the prestigious Young Champions of the Earth Prize for bringing virtual forests to life in Russia.  Seven young entrepreneurs under the age of 30 with big ideas for environmental change have been recognized from across the globe.

The 2019 Young Champion of the Earth winner for Europe has launched the “Plant the Forest” website to reach more people in our reforestation efforts. In the future, she is also planning to launch a “Plant the forest” educational gaming project, where your actions in virtual reality lead to tree restoration in real life.

When 26-year-old Peter Sänger and 34-year-old Liang Wu got together, they realized right away that they had something in common. Both firm advocates in the fight against air pollution, they believe that if you can’t measure it, you can’t beat it.    

The sandwich is a trusty solution to working lunches around the world. Fast, tasty and unlikely to produce much mess, the sandwich lunch continues to be a staple in the professional diet. But when Tristram Stuart, an international award-winning author and campaigner on the environmental and social impact of food production, visited a sandwich factory back in 2016, he saw something different.

By Hugh Weldon, 2018 Young Champion of the Earth for Europe We don’t talk much about air pollution. But we should, because the air we breathe is slowly killing us.

Fourteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, from Northern Ireland, was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome when he was five.

Hugh Weldon, Young Champion of the Earth for Europe in 2018, and the team at Evocco are taking their app to the next level in 2019. They started off on a good note, named among the Irish Times' “50 people to watch for 2019”.

Hugh Weldon is the Young Champion of the Earth for Europe. The Young Champions of the Earth Prize is powered by Covestro. Together with Evocco app co-founder Ahmad Mu’azzan, Weldon was won the UNITECH Carbon Footprint Challenge 2017, the What Design Can Do Climate Action Challenge 2017 and Climathon Zurich 2017.

Adam Dixon, Young Champion of the Earth for Europe, shares his experiences in building a sustainable agribusiness. Hello and welcome to my blog! I am Adam Dixon from Phytoponics and the UN Young Champion of the Earth for Europe. I’m writing this in January and in this post, I will discuss some of my background in developing the project so far, I’ll tell you what has happened since the award of the prize in Kenya, what our aims are for the next few months, and the challenges we are tackling now.

Young British entrepreneur and inventor Adam Dixon was today announced as a United Nations Young Champion of the Earth for his hydroponic technology that supports the growth of plants using 10 times less land and water than conventional horticulture.