• Deepsea under The Pole - Planète Les Echos

  Created thanks to Rolex’s exclusive partnership with Les Echos, the “Les Echos Planète” website provides information and alerts to encourage all those who are ready to engage in protecting the planet to get involved.

• Perpetual Planet initiative - CN Traveller

  In a first-of-its-kind association, Condé Nast Traveller India partnered with Rolex to shine a light on Rolex's Perpetual Planet initiative.

• Call to Earth - CNN

  Call to Earth is CNN’s commitment to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions.

• The trash-to-treasure hunters

  How two environmental leaders are using innovative waste reuse strategies to spur economic development—and clean up their communities in the process.

• Listen for the trees

  In rainforests around the world, conservationists are using an unexpected tool—mobile phones—to face the challenge of deforestation.

• What lies beneath

  Vreni Häussermann has made it her mission to catalogue and conserve the extraordinary wildlife found in Chile’s deep fjords.

• The animals next door

  How two environmental leaders are using innovative waste reuse strategies to spur economic development—and clean up their communities in the process.

• Saving the giant of the Amazon

  For biologist João Campos-Silva, protecting a single fish species is the key to improving the quality of countless human lives

• How to solve the plastic problem

  Can a new chemical innovation finally offer a solution for the world’s unrecyclable waste?

• Explorer with a cause

  For decades, Arctic adventurer Lonnie Dupre has been travelling to some of the world’s most extreme environments to raise awareness about the consequences of global warming.

• Reviving the world’s reefs

  Inside marine biologist Emma Camp's innovative plan to address coral bleaching.

• The potential of citizen science

  How one leading conservationist is using crowd-sourced photography and an innovative software algorithm to help save the world’s largest fish

• How explorers helped seed planet conservation

  Adventuring is no longer just about pushing the boundaries of human achievement. Over the past century, pioneers have begun blending a passion for exploring the natural world with enduring commitment to protecting it.

• Finding solutions to India’s freshwater challenge

  Inside the extraordinary effort of two environmentalists to safeguard the country’s lakes and rivers—and the life that depends on them.

• Innovating for a better understanding of oceans

  Two groundbreaking researchers are using new technology to better understand the seas, and animals that live in them.

• Climate solutions - The Washington Post

  The Washington Post’s ongoing “Climate Solutions” initiative launched in partnership with Rolex in 2018. For this series, The Post has focused on the individuals, companies and other organizations that are exploring ways to address our most significant environmental problems. The features below live alongside The Washington Post’s reporting and spotlight individual innovators at the forefront of finding climate solutions.

• Sylvia Earle, Legendary Pioneer Of Underwater Exploration

  Sylvia Earle has received more than 32 honorary degrees and has over 225 scientific and technical publications to her name.

• Penguins face threats at sea and on land

  14 of the 18 species of penguins in the world are at risk. Pablo García Borboroglu made it his mission to save them.

• The protection of nature

  At 36 years old, João Campos-Silva is on a mission to save the giant fish of the Amazon. And, with it, the whole ecosystem of the river.

• Within a week, healthy and vibrant corals had turned white

  A young English biologist is in a race to save the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Will she manage in time?

• Ocean of hope - Visao

  OCEAN OF HOPE is a project launched by the Portuguese magazine company VISÃO in partnership with Rolex, within the scope of its Perpetual Planet initiative, to give voice to the extraordinary individuals and organisations who are working to build a more sustainable planet and future.

• Krithi Karanth And Grégoire Courtine

  Meet two of the five Rolex Awards For Enterprise laureates, whose inspiring projects will improve life on Earth as part of the watchmaker's Perpetual Planet campaign.

• Sylvia Earle and David Doubilet

  Banning single-use plastics will not necessarily save Planet Earth, but making the right choices every day will, say the two legendary Rolex Testimonees and seasoned environmental activists

• Brazilian Conservationist João Campos-Silva

  The Rolex Awards 2019 laureate wants to save the arapaima fish population in the Amazon. Is it an uphill challenge?

• Deep Thinker

  Marine biologist and explorer Sylvia Earle has studied the sea and its creatures for more than 50 years. Now she’s campaigning for a new wave of marine parks.

• Why The Perpetual Planet Initiative Matters To Rolex

  The Perpetual Planet initiative is born out of Rolex's commitment to protecting Earth, improving lives and building a better future.

• Indian Conservationist And Scientist Krithi Karanth

  The Rolex Awards 2019 laureate, and daughter of a tiger biologist, hopes to reduce wildlife-human conflict in India. Will she succeed?

• What Can You Do Every Day To Make The Planet Perpetual?

  The legendary marine biologist, together with famed underwater photographer David Doubilet, takes a pragmatic stance to saving the earth and ocean.

• A life working for Patagonian biodiversity

  For more than 20 years, the marine biologist has been carrying out her unique work of detecting and preserving new species of coral in the fjords of Chile.

• Rodney Jackson dances with snow leopards

  The world-renowned biologist is entirely devoted to the preservation of these rare felines, whose territory covers 12 countries. A life's work that combines scientific discoveries and cooperation with the peoples of the mountains.

• The digital revolution and protection of biodiversity

  A column co-authored by Sarah Toumi, member of the Presidential Council for Africa, Patricia Ricard, chair of the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute, and Samir Abdelkrim, founder of Emerging Valley.

• Perpetual Planet Stories - Tatler

  With the health of planet earth deteriorating, the need to build a sustainable future is ever more acute today.

• Ghislain Bardout, Abysses as horizons

  The Under The Pole exhibitions explore the “twilight zone” at ocean depths of between 60 and 150 metres and contribute to the major scientific discoveries that will determine the future of our planet.

• Listening to the world to save endangered species

  The research and technological innovations developed by the bio-acoustician are used to assess the degree of noise pollution that affects the planet, and to take action.

• Struggle to protect giant manta rays

  In northern Peru, the biologist educates local communities to preserve the wealth of the ocean, enlisting thousands of people to join the fight.

• Joseph Cook, The living ice hunter

  Mapping and analysing the huge microbial system that is colonising glacial expanses and warming the planet, the young scientist’s research has attracted worldwide attention.

• Brad Norman, the whale shark champion

  The world-renowned Australian scientist is working hard to discover the secrets of the world's largest fish and prevent its disappearance.

• Offering a sustainable future to Filipino craftswomen

  In the Philippines, the president of Rags2Riches is taking women out of poverty by creating useful and desirable objects with recycled materials.

• Sylvia Earle: Pioneer in Underwater Exploration

  Four decades later, the oceanographer and pioneer in underwater exploration is still at the forefront of the struggle with her Mission Blue initiative.

• Ice stupas

  The Indian engineer Sonam Wangchuk, who won a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2016, creates artificial cone-shaped glaciers that supply water to the farmers in Ladakh.

• Analysing the sounds of the Rainforest

  How can we put a stop to ILLEGAL logging? It would have been tempting to come up with a high-technology solution, but in the Rainforest a simple and practical response is required.

• Waging war on superbugs

  The clinical microbiologist Hosam Zowawi fights to overcome the resistance of certain bacteria to antibiotics.

• Exploring to preserve the natural world

  The Rolex awards for enterprise have recognised various projects dedicated to conservation in 2019.

• New plastic recycling method

  Turning plastic waste into a product of value. This is the mission of Miranda Wang, one of the Laureates of the 2019 Rolex Awards for Enterprise.

• National Geographic

  From the deepest oceans to the remotest rainforests and the highest mountains, environmental challenges affect every place on Earth, even the most out-of-the-way areas.

• Walking Again

  Grégoire Courtine, from France, has conceived a system that enables people with spinal cord injuries to regain their mobility.

• Curing by detection

  Brian Gitta, from Uganda, has invented a device that provides a fast diagnosis of malaria and does not require a blood test.

• The hidden secrets of the tepuis

  In the caves hidden under the Tepuis of South America, the geologist Francesco Sauro has discovered clues to the evolution of life on Earth.

• Seeing further

  Andrew Bastawrous developed a kit that can be used on a smartphone to detect eye diseases. Thanks to winning the Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2016, his important invention is now expanding from Kenya to the rest of the world.

• Biomedicine of the future

  His first achievement was to produce vaccines that don't require injections or refrigeration.

• Reforestation is feasible

  Laury Cullen Jr., a 2004 Rolex Laureate, is successfully reversing a process of loss by progressively restoring Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

• He saves forests using old mobile phones

  Huge areas of tropical rainforest disappear every day due to illegal logging. This is why Topher White is installing electronic “ears” in the jungle. Made from recycled technology, these work as a networked warning system. He was awarded the Rolex Award for Enterprise for his project.

• The engineer helping Himalayan farmers by creating artificial glaciers

  Sonam Wangchuk has devised a system to irrigate crop fields in the Ladakh region (India) during the dry season by harnessing snowmelt water. This is one of the initiatives recognised by the 2016 Rolex Awards for Initiative.

• Perpetual Planet initiative - CN Traveller

  “Preservar el planeta” is a common challenge of El País Semanal and Rolex in which we work together to give voice to environmental and technological projects.

• The computer scientist who created a tablet to detect heart disease

  The Cardio Pad is a device devised by 2014 Rolex Awards Laureate Arthur Zang that allows health workers to perform heart examinations in a country with a severe shortage of cardiologists.

• Rolex Partnerships - Movimiento Inspirador

  There are journeys that take us to unexplored geographies, initiatives that challenge us and people that inspire us.

• Research for sustaining our planet

  Rolex has been supporting expeditions and research projects for a long time. The new “Perpetual Planet” campaign focuses on the urgent question: what do we have to do to make a globally relevant contribution to improving our living conditions and to protect our planet?

• Overcoming water shortages in the Himalayan deserts

  In the shadow of the world’s highest mountain range there is a drought as rain does not make it past the peaks.

• She turns plastic waste into a raw material

  Plastic waste is everywhere - nature has practically no remedy for plastic. This is where technology comes in. Miranda Wang is developing procedures that turn plastic waste into useful raw materials. For this she received the Rolex Award for Enterprise.

• That’s why Rolex supports unusual people

  Rolex Awards for Enterprise honour people who do something special – for our society and our planet. Rolex has been presenting this award for more than 40 years. 150 people have been honoured for ground-breaking, innovative projects.

• Our unique planet - Die Welt

  With its “Perpetual Planet” campaign, Rolex supports extraordinary individuals and organisations carrying out an important task sustaining our planet.

• Saving the oceans, one hope spot at a time

  Backed by Rolex, the Mission Blue initiative by Sylvia Earle is giving new life to sensitive parts of the marine world.

• These protected marine spots around the world are giving hope to Planet Earth

  Sylvia Earle has received more than 32 honorary degrees and has over 225 scientific and technical publications to her name.

• He teaches paraplegics to walk

  They have lost control over their bodies – but Grégoire Courtine, a neuroscientist, uses pioneering new technology to hand control back to his paraplegic patients. He was consequently awarded the Rolex Award for Enterprise.

• Discovering new species in Chilean Patagonia

  The wild deep: Discovering new species in Chilean Patagonia — before they go extinct

• Growing up wild: This photographer captures the beauty of Mexico's mountains

  Growing up in the remote mountains of Sierra Gorda, Mexico, Roberto Pedraza Ruiz developed a serious case of biophilia.

• Holding back the world’s largest desert

  The world's largest desert is growing. In the last century, the Sahara Desert expanded by more than 10%, now covering an area of more than 3.3 million square miles (8.6 million square kilometers) and spanning 11 countries in the north of Africa.

• Spying on illegal loggers

  How old cell phones are spying on illegal loggers

• New plastic recycling method

  Start-up devours pollution with new plastic recycling method

• Kerstin Forsberg on why we must protect our sea

  Ever since she was a child, Kerstin Forsberg has been fascinated by the ocean.

• Indigenous trackers

  Indigenous trackers are teaching scientists about wildlife

• Why Maritza Morales Casanova believes children are the answer to climate change

  As young children, most of us don't know what we want to be when we grow up. Not Maritza Morales Casanova.

• Toughest corals to save dying reefs

  This marine biologist wants to use the world's toughest corals to save dying reefs

• How NASA technology can help save whale sharks

  Thousands of people around the world are lending a hand to help save the world’s biggest fish.

• A century of climate change in Patagonia

  Explorer's mission to photograph a century of climate change in Patagonia

• Cleaning up India's Lakes

  From Google to garbage disposal: the environmentalist cleaning up India's lakes

• Sowing seeds of rainwater harvesting globally

  The Rolex Awards support pioneers who work on creative projects that make the world a better place.

• A hospital ward made from trash highlights Arthur Huang's mission to revolutionize recycling

  When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang wanted to do something to help.

• Building a society where the deaf play active roles

  In 2016, at the age of 29, Junto Ohki received the Rolex Awards in the Young Laureates category (for those aged 18 to 30) for his project, "Expansion of the Cloud-based Online Sign Language Dictionary."

• Rolex Partnerships - SATO Project

  The Asahi Shimbun launched SATO PROJECT for preserving the scenery of beautiful Japanese SATO (spiritual home of Japan) from environmental changes and depopulation.

• Perpetual Hope

  There is plenty of reason for hope. It starts with people understanding that we have impacts on the ocean and knowing why it matters.

• Using smartphones to protect the most vulnerable from blindness

  Ophthalmologist wants to use smartphones to protect impoverished communities from blindness

• Joseph Cook and the frozen rainforest

  The Arctic’s ice sheet is becoming darker, resulting in a reduction of its “albedo” or its ability to reflect sunlight.

• On a mission of hope

  Trailblazing US oceanographer Sylvia Earle offers a message of encouragement for our besieged Great Barrier Reef.