Backed by Rolex through the Perpetual Planet Initiative, French Polynesian conservationist Titouan Bernicot has turned a teenage obsession with coral into one of the most closely watched reef restoration operations in the Pacific.
Reynolds steered his team’s fully foiling F50 racing trimaran that clocked speeds over 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) prior to the official racing on Bermuda’s Great Sound.
At 90, and after more than 100 expeditions, marine biologist and oceanographer Sylvia Earle is still asking the same question. “What or who is down there?”
Fifty years after its launch, the Rolex Awards for Enterprise continue to fund projects still in progress, with the 2026 Laureates tackling challenges spanning biodiversity loss, disease prevention and ecosystem protection.
Steve Boyes and his team, backed by the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, have travelled tens of thousands of kilometres by river chasing one simple question: where does a river begin? His latest focus is the Zambezi’s “source of life” wetlands in Angola.
After a race protest, BNC – my::NET / LEON received a 1 hour 5 minute time penalty, making double-handed vessel Min River the overall winner of the Tattersall Cup.
Courtine has spent years building a system that reroutes movement around a broken spine. Now, inside a Swiss research hospital, he is applying it to patients with complete spinal fractures to see how much of walking can be rebuilt through direct neural stimulation.
Australia’s Hugh Jackman and Hollywood juggernaut Ryan Reynolds have become co-owners of the Australian SailGP team, rebranded as the Bonds Flying Roos.
Rolex has been announced as a major partner of the PGA of Australia, stepping in as the Official Timekeeper for the BMW Australian PGA Championship.
A day after office co-working start-up WeWork revealed there was “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue, its share price has dropped again. But how did it get here?