Sustainability
Clean energy and smart mobility take centre stage at EVER Monaco
From electric vehicles to lunar mobility and groundbreaking clean energy solutions, EVER Monaco 2024 at the Grimaldi Forum in mid-November offered fascinating insights into the latest innovations that are striking a path to a more sustainable future. Monaco Life went along to investigate.
Read more
Female ocean scientist awarded major grant
The Women in Ocean Science (WIOS) committee, headed by Monaco Scientific Centre’s Dr Christine Ferrier-Pagès, has awarded its first recipient, an American scientist working with Caribbean coral...
Appeal for sea plastic reducing projects
BeMed, the organisation co-created by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, is launching a call for projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution in the Mediterranean islands.
Funding needed for animal-borne virus research
The ZSL is calling for urgent investment in research to prevent future pandemics which could have a much higher fatality rate than Covid-19.
Living peacefully with orangutans in 2020
Since 1996, Marc Ancrenaz, through his NGO HUTAN, has been identifying ways for people to co-exist and share habitats peacefully with orangutans in the Sabah rainforest, Malaysian Borneo.
Ocean protection continues during crisis
The MedFund is allocating €1.8 million to marine protected areas. It comes amid a new scientific study which suggests that oceans could be returned to their former glory within a generation.
Air pollution levels plummet in lockdown
Satellite data distributed by the European Space Agency show improvement in air quality in vast swaths of Europe since the confinement period began.
