All fired up: Vidyut Mohan, Earthshot winner

Vidyut Mohan, 30, is one of first five winners of the Earthshot Prize, the 1-million-pound ( ₹10.33 crore) award instituted by the Duke of Cambridge to reward solutions to climate change. Winners for the Earthshot prize were chosen from about 750 nominations worldwide. His company, Takachar, aims to help farmers find lucrative uses for their crop waste after the harvest, so that they don’t end up burning the waste.