As a teenager, Miranda Wang took a high-school science fair project to the TED stage. Now she is leading Novoloop, a company betting that upcycling polyethylene into new polyurethane products can compete commercially – with Rolex backing her next phase of growth. Miranda Wang was 16 when she first came face to face with the […]
Felix Brooks-church has taken a simple 23-kilogram machine and turned it into a lifeline for millions. Backed by Rolex through the Perpetual Planet Initiative, his Dosifier is now operating in thousands of mills across East Africa, cutting the cost of fortification to just 19 cents per person. Felix Brooks-church doesn’t pack a suitcase anymore. He […]
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 […]