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Challenge winners pioneer eco-friendly sanitary pads and climate resilience in medicinal plants

With a background in electrical engineering, Martha Wakoli is a manager at CLASP, an international appliance efficiency nonprofit.

Dr Pooja Singh of India found a way to transform an invasive aquatic plant into biodegradable sanitary products.

Dr Mokgadi Hlongwane of Pretoria, South Africa, found a way to use beneficial bacteria to enhance the growth and resilience of medicinal plants used to treat wounds, diabetes, cancer and more.

These researchers won the 2025 Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge, which seeks solutions rooted in chemistry that can help mitigate the climate crisis. Each will receive a $25,000 prize to conduct their proposed projects.

"I surveyed more than 100 villages across Benin. I was shocked by the losses caused by pests, but also by the distress of the farmers trying to use chemical insecticides to control them."

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Prof Yeyinou Laura Estelle Loko, PhD

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Prof Yeyinou Laura Estelle Loko, PhD

Associate Professor of Zoology and Genetics at National University of Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics (UNSTIM)