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Innovative biochemist Pat Brown is the man behind the Impossible Burger. Now, he's set his sights on a rewilding project on a ranch in Arkansas.

Scientist Pat Brown has made a name for himself in biochemistry, and more recently in the initiative to reduce humanity’s reliance on animal agriculture. Throughout his journey, he’s championed one particular philosophy: “Blast Ahead!”

Biology Pat Brown has influenced the fields of biochemistry, virology, and genomics throughout his career. Now, the renowned scientist sets his sights on the largest problem of all: climate change.

Bringing biodiversity back to a clearcut ranch in Arkansas is a daunting task, but the mission is clear: use trees and native plants as powerful tools for capturing and sequestering carbon.

When Pat Brown recognized that replacing the use of animals as a food technology could rapidly arrest global heating and reverse the global collapse of ecosystems and biodiversity, Pat founded Impossible Foods, a company that makes delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable meats directly from plants.

It was a late-career epiphany that led “wacky genius” Pat Brown to abandon his academic career and commit himself to fighting global warming and biodiversity collapse. He did it, against all odds, by developing a surprising product: the revolutionary and delicious plant-based Impossible Burger.

In Madhya Pradesh, renowned as India’s “tiger state,” a team installs AI-integrated camera traps to reduce conflict and safeguard lives in a vital wildlife corridor home to 2 million people – and 300 wild tigers.

Piyush Yadav is a Conservation Technology Fellow at RESOLVE, where he focuses on developing and implementing new technologies for wildlife protection.

Hrishita Negi is a Ph.D. candidate at Clemson University undertaking her research in the globally recognized tiger landscape of Central India.

Boyan Slat is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization developing and scaling technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic.