Noel Budeguer

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I am an Argentine journalist based in Rio de Janeiro, focusing on energy and geopolitics, as well as technology and military affairs. I produce analyses and reports with accessible language, data, context, and strategic insight into the developments impacting Brazil and the world. 📩 Contact: noelbudeguer@gmail.com

Economy

Retirement no longer covers the bills for millions in Brazil: the number of elderly people working has increased by 53% in ten years, exposing the harsh reality of those who need to remain active after 60.

Noel Budeguer 12/06/2026 at 19:55

Interesting facts

It seems like something out of a movie, but it happens in Brazil: when the national team takes the field in the World Cup, even the power grid changes its behavior because millions pause their routine, turn on TVs, and alter energy consumption all at once.

Noel Budeguer 12/06/2026 at 15:41

Science and Technology

Startup creates “robot cowboys” with drones that move cattle via cell phone, reduce the use of motorcycles, horses, and helicopters, and also monitor weight, pasture, water, and sick animals on farms.

Noel Budeguer 11/06/2026 at 19:29

Construction

Construction material store starts selling modular units that resemble small houses, assembled in a few days in the backyard, as the housing crisis pushes families towards unconventional solutions in Australia.

Noel Budeguer 11/06/2026 at 18:59

Interesting facts

A homeless man became the only “resident” of London’s most expensive mansion, a £210 million house with 45 rooms that remains empty while he lives at the entrance.

Noel Budeguer 11/06/2026 at 12:01

Interesting facts

Public works in a Brazilian city opened the ground of a busy avenue and revealed the bow of a 22-meter 19th-century ship, buried where rivers, streams, and vessels once passed.

Noel Budeguer 11/06/2026 at 09:59

Construction

Workers opened the ground at a construction site in downtown São Paulo and found tram tracks buried under the concrete, revealing a forgotten city from the time when the capital still relied on rail transport.

Noel Budeguer 11/06/2026 at 09:09

Science and Technology

With workers dying from heat at construction sites worldwide, a company has created a vest that cools the body by up to 15°C for 8 hours and is already used by Formula 1 drivers and workers in Brazil.

Noel Budeguer 10/06/2026 at 22:41

Agribusiness

Brazilian startup created a camera with artificial intelligence that weighs cattle in the pasture in 15 minutes, replacing a process that previously required 5 cowboys, 12 hours of work, and caused high stress in the herd.

Noel Budeguer 10/06/2026 at 18:53

Agribusiness

Brazilian drone and artificial intelligence system identifies the exact moment of cattle slaughter without touching the animals, cuts costs in confinement, and may lower the price of meat in the supermarket.

Noel Budeguer 10/06/2026 at 15:03

Interesting facts

A fishing boat left Amapá, disappeared more than 400 km off the coast in an area that the Navy itself acknowledges as lacking sufficient surveillance and that the PCC and Comando Vermelho have already chosen as a corridor to transport cocaine to Europe.

Noel Budeguer 10/06/2026 at 14:04

Oil and Gas

There is oil below the oil that Brazil already extracts: Petrobras confirmed a new accumulation in the Búzios field, at a depth of 5,600 meters, in a zone below the reservoir already operating in the Santos Basin.

Noel Budeguer 09/06/2026 at 20:17

Noel Budeguer

Retirement no longer covers the bills for millions in Brazil: the number of elderly people working has increased by 53% in ten years, exposing the harsh reality of those who need to remain active after 60.

It seems like something out of a movie, but it happens in Brazil: when the national team takes the field in the World Cup, even the power grid changes its behavior because millions pause their routine, turn on TVs, and alter energy consumption all at once.

Startup creates “robot cowboys” with drones that move cattle via cell phone, reduce the use of motorcycles, horses, and helicopters, and also monitor weight, pasture, water, and sick animals on farms.

Construction material store starts selling modular units that resemble small houses, assembled in a few days in the backyard, as the housing crisis pushes families towards unconventional solutions in Australia.

A homeless man became the only “resident” of London’s most expensive mansion, a £210 million house with 45 rooms that remains empty while he lives at the entrance.

Public works in a Brazilian city opened the ground of a busy avenue and revealed the bow of a 22-meter 19th-century ship, buried where rivers, streams, and vessels once passed.

Workers opened the ground at a construction site in downtown São Paulo and found tram tracks buried under the concrete, revealing a forgotten city from the time when the capital still relied on rail transport.

With workers dying from heat at construction sites worldwide, a company has created a vest that cools the body by up to 15°C for 8 hours and is already used by Formula 1 drivers and workers in Brazil.

Brazilian startup created a camera with artificial intelligence that weighs cattle in the pasture in 15 minutes, replacing a process that previously required 5 cowboys, 12 hours of work, and caused high stress in the herd.

Brazilian drone and artificial intelligence system identifies the exact moment of cattle slaughter without touching the animals, cuts costs in confinement, and may lower the price of meat in the supermarket.

A fishing boat left Amapá, disappeared more than 400 km off the coast in an area that the Navy itself acknowledges as lacking sufficient surveillance and that the PCC and Comando Vermelho have already chosen as a corridor to transport cocaine to Europe.

There is oil below the oil that Brazil already extracts: Petrobras confirmed a new accumulation in the Búzios field, at a depth of 5,600 meters, in a zone below the reservoir already operating in the Santos Basin.

Engineers want to carve through Africa with a giant canal to bring water from the world’s second-largest river to a dying lake on the edge of the Sahara Desert that has already lost 90% of its water.

A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

Instead of burning or burying old tires, an American city is transforming about 2,000 of them into the street itself, paving its first sections with a quieter and more durable rubber asphalt.

In just one cast, fishermen are surprised to capture 14,096 mullets in Bombinhas and close a historic season with 58,000 fish; scene recorded in the Santa Catarina paradise marks the last day of the 2026 season.

Using high-resolution satellite images, archaeologists rediscovered the Egyptian city of Imet, buried for centuries in the Nile Delta, revealing rare multi-story houses, granaries, and a sacred road linked to the cobra goddess Wadjet, from about 2,400 years ago.

Greek island offers free housing for volunteers, but there’s a condition: you need to take care of rescued cats.

Motorcyclist sees excavator arriving at the edge of a river in Bosnia, calls neighbors in minutes and turns a hydroelectric project into a resistance lasting more than 10 years with five expired concessions.