As mass bleaching reshapes the world’s largest reef, Emma Camp, Rolex Awards Laureate, is focused on resilience, not total restoration. Her message is clear: there’s no silver bullet – but there is hope. The Great Barrier Reef is no longer the vibrant postcard fantasy from childhood documentaries. Once the crown jewel of marine biodiversity, the […]
To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and droughts have become ever more frequent and intense in the last two decades in the Brazilian Amazon. Julia Valentim Tavares, an ecologist and […]
The British Explorer has spent decades braving some of the most extreme environments on Earth. A record-breaking polar explorer, she was the first woman to ski solo across Antarctica and has led multiple all-female expeditions across the Arctic. Now, her focus is singular: document the Arctic before it disappears. Through her expeditions, Aston says she […]