Canadian, Briton Share Environment Prize

Academics from Canada and Britain on Friday shared the $50,000 Sasakawa Prize for studies of the environment. The prize is awarded annually from an endowment by a Japanese shipbuilding magnate.

Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Program, presented the prize to Prof. Elizabeth Mann Borgese of Canada and Prof. Nicholas Polunin of Britain at a ceremony marking World Environment Day. Borgese is president of the International Ocean Institute in Malta. Polunin, an authority on Arctic botany and ecology, publishes academic works on the environment from Cambridge, England.