• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• What lies beneath

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Listen for the trees

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

• Reviving the world’s reefs

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

• How to solve the plastic problem

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

• 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.