UNESCO photo contest on The Changing Face of the Earth

UNESCO photo contest on

The Changing Face of the Earth

UNESCO’s International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) is running a photo contest on the theme of The Changing Face of the Earth, to raise awareness among youth of the state of the planet. There are several cameras and 40 book prizes to be won. Entries close on 30 June 2008.

Contestants may enter in either of the categories:

• 15-20 year olds and
• contestants aged 21 years and over.

Each winning contestant will receive a copy of two UNESCO books: Explaining the Earth and The Changing Face of the Earth. In addition, the best entries in each category will win a camera. The names of the winning contestants will be announced in the October 2008 issue of A World of Science and on UNESCO’s science portal.

Photos can be entered in any of ten categories:

1. Soil – Earth's living skin, Planet Earth in our hands
2. Groundwater – towards sustainable use
3. Hazards – minimizing risk, maximizing awards
4. Earth and health – building a safer environment
5. Climate change – the ‘stone tape’
6. Resource issues – towards sustainable use
7. Megacities – going deeper, building safer
8. Deep Earth – from crust to core
9. Ocean – abyss of time
10. Earth and life – the origins of diversity

Read more about the contest.