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BILLIONAIRE
The Purity of Water • A champion freediver describes her vision of a changing ocean.
OPINIONS • Each issue we ask three thought leaders the same question. In this issue: how do we create resilience in the young?
Wild Coast Tented Lodge
The Weekender Rajasthan • Time passes differently in one of our publisher’s favourite places on Earth.
Five Minutes With… Adam Blackwood
Soma Surf • Each issue we profile a new, innovative NGO seeking funding. This issue, African girls’ surf therapy.
WASTE NOT
Designing Away Single-Use Plastic • Making plastic alternatives sexy is Cyrill Gutsch’s plan to sway decision-makers in major corporations.
Guardians Of The Beach • A unique project has cleaned up 750 tons of marine litter from the Greek coastline.
All At Sea • We profile eight social entrepreneurs behind innovative start-ups harnessing the power of the sea to tackle environmental and social problems related to the oceans.
Generation of Change • The producer of A Plastic Ocean and founder of Ocean Generation, Jo Ruxton MBE, talks marine conservation.
GREEN TECH
Green Hydrogen, Cleaner Seas • A 100 per cent hydrogen yacht commissioned by Bill Gates may inspire other superyacht buyers to go clean.
Answers From The Abyss • A billionaire-funded research vessel will provide incomparable access to one of the planet’s last unexplored frontiers: the ocean.
Polar Solar • A passionate crew of naturalists, scientists and Arctic lovers have made the ultimate solar-powered sailboat.
Troubled Waters • How to invest in water related-causes to mitigate climate change and generate a return.
MARINE CONSERVATION
The Ocean’s Storyteller • Photographer Andy Mann is on a mission to document endangered Mediterranean monk seals.
Marine Marvels • It’s game on in the battle to save the planet’s coral reefs.
Restoring Scotland’s Seas • The community of Loch Craignish understands the potential of oysters and seagrass in regenerating its waters.
ISLAND PARADISE
A Place Like No Other • The Galápagos is the ne plus ultra of exotic travel – a land of vestigial dinosaurs and strange creatures.
Beauty in Seclusion • Innit Lombok is a true Indonesian paradise.
Living History • An old island fortress in Montenegro gets a billionaire makeover to become a magical hotel.
Artistic Wave • A quartet of female artists bringing to light the state of our oceans.
My Favourite Things: Jan Fabre