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With a central span of 856 meters and pillars 214 meters high, the Pont de Normandie was the first cable-stayed bridge in the world to surpass the 800-meter mark and proved that direct steel cables could compete with suspension bridges over distances that no one thought possible.
Bruno Teles 09/04/2026 at 14:38
Interesting facts
In Bolivia, the Llanos de Moxos form a plain of 6.9 million hectares connected to the Amazon basin that floods every year with hydrological pulses of up to 5 meters, creating a continental labyrinth of rivers, lakes, and seasonal channels visible from space.
Valdemar Medeiros 09/04/2026 at 14:17
Mining
In Kerala, India, known as “the land of God,” dredging machines are extracting sand from rivers 40 times faster than nature can replenish it, riverbeds have already dropped nearly 2 meters, rivers have begun to dry up, and scientists who investigated the floods of 2018 discovered that decades of uncontrolled mining have weakened the rivers to the point where they can no longer contain the water.
Valdemar Medeiros 09/04/2026 at 13:46
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