Agribusiness

Brazil imports 85% of the fertilizers that sustain its agribusiness, and new global tension exposes a silent risk in the field: without potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen at the right time, the next harvest could become more expensive even before entering the soil.

Valdemar Medeiros 26/04/2026 at 13:42

Interesting facts

The ideal breakfast, according to science, includes 4 powerful foods that improve memory, energy, and heart health right from the first hours of the day.

Jefferson Augusto 26/04/2026 at 12:57

Construction

It looks like Styrofoam, but it’s not: structural EPS combines polystyrene panels with metal meshes and shotcrete to form strong walls that cost up to 30% less than traditional masonry, and the system already has Inmetro certification.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 12:34

Science and Technology

Ibama is using drones, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence to hunt an Asian invasive plant in the mangroves of Cubatão before it spreads along the Brazilian coast, and more than 700 trees of the species have already been manually removed.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 12:31

Science and Technology

Giant octopuses up to 19 meters dominated the oceans 100 million years ago, and new 3D technology reveals what the true apex predators of the sea were like.

Jefferson Augusto 26/04/2026 at 12:27

Science and Technology

Brazil will face a week of climatic extremes with temperatures ranging from 0 degree in Serra Gaúcha to 36 degrees in the Southeast, rainfall of up to 200 millimeters in the North and Northeast, and a polar air mass that promises to be the most intense of 2026.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 12:04

Economy

The R$ 61.7 billion deficit in government accounts in 2025 will trigger the fiscal framework’s mechanisms for the first time, and starting in 2027, personnel spending will only be able to grow 0.6% above inflation, which could freeze salary adjustments and public service entrance exams.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 11:54

Science and Technology

Brazil had been escaping unscathed from the coral bleaching that was devastating reefs worldwide, but that’s over: Maragogi, Natal, and Salvador have already recorded mass mortality, and the oceanographer from the Coral Vivo Project says that the country now faces an unprecedented level of problem.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/04/2026 at 11:51

Science and Technology

Prepare your heavy umbrella: Maranhão, Piauí, and Ceará go on alert at the end of April with up to 100 mm of rain per day, winds that could reach 100 km/h, risk of flooding and lightning strikes, as the northern coast of the Northeast becomes the main corridor for storms.

Valdemar Medeiros 26/04/2026 at 11:48

Science and Technology

Scientists drilled the bottom of the Dead Sea at nearly 300 meters of water depth and recovered sediments capable of recording 450,000 years of droughts, earthquakes, and lake collapses, revealing that the region has already experienced episodes of extreme aridity long before the current water crisis.

Valdemar Medeiros 26/04/2026 at 10:42

Uncategorized

The first intense polar air mass of 2026 will place São Paulo at the center of the cold at the turn of May to June, with temperatures near 10 °C and an extreme contrast with the North and Northeast still above 36 °C during the same period.

Valdemar Medeiros 26/04/2026 at 08:31

Interesting facts

To avoid being swallowed by the sea, a French city makes a historic decision: it will move up a hill 40 meters to avoid losing its future, after floods, storms, and fear of disappearing due to rising sea levels.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 26/04/2026 at 08:18