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Economy

Government wants to pay up to R$ 8,000 to more than 2,300 traditional families in over 100 communities in Acre and Amazonas for environmental services provided to the Amazon.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 21/06/2026 at 08:56

Interesting facts

Brazilian flying boat aims to shorten trips that can currently take days in the Amazon by using rivers as runways and reaching speeds of 150 km/h to transport people, cargo, and even provide health support in isolated regions.

Geovane Souza 18/06/2026 at 19:32

Interesting facts

Far beyond simple shocks: scientists highlight how electric fish from the Amazon use complex bioelectric mechanisms to generate up to 860 volts, a natural evolutionary innovation that ensures an absolute advantage in dark and challenging ecosystems.

Hilton Libório 16/06/2026 at 07:50

Interesting facts

Flying rivers that release more than 70% of the rain in areas of Peru and Bolivia depend on public forests without a destination in the Amazon, but the advance of deforestation puts this vital corridor at risk.

Geovane Souza 11/06/2026 at 09:54

Sustainability

Amazon records lowest level of deforestation in eight years and preserves an area equivalent to 7,000 football fields, but progress in Roraima and isolated increase in March raise an alert

Jefferson Augusto 08/06/2026 at 00:32

Economy

Trump threatens Brazil with a 25% tariff and uses illegal deforestation as an argument to pressure exports; US report accuses environmental failures, while recent decline in the Amazon exposes a dispute that could impact Brazilian trade and politics.

Carla Teles 03/06/2026 at 19:20

Science and Technology

UN issues new warning today: chance of El Niño increases even further and the world, including Brazil, needs to prepare for severe climate events.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 02/06/2026 at 20:08

Interesting facts

The Amazon faces an invisible problem beyond deforestation: an open-air landfill near Manaus threatens water, agriculture, and tourism, while a sanitary landfill emerges as a solution to replace irregular disposal and protect communities in Iranduba.

Carla Teles 29/05/2026 at 19:27

Economy

Brazil makes first reforestation concession in the Amazon, grants 145,000 degraded acres to a startup for 40 years and tests if carbon credits can help curb the tipping point of the planet’s largest tropical forest.

Carla Teles 28/05/2026 at 16:46

Construction

Brazil’s most feared highway will become the “most sustainable road on the planet” with a R$ 1.5 billion project, 170 wildlife crossings, 50 bridges, and environmental protection in an area of 40,000 km² in the heart of the Amazon.

Alisson Ficher 28/05/2026 at 14:00

Science and Technology

By firing lasers from helicopters over the Amazon, scientists were able to digitally “remove” the forest and revealed beneath it ancient cities with thousands of platforms, roads, and pyramids, in a discovery that rewrites the history of the biome and disproves centuries-old ideas that the region was too wild to host civilization.

Bruno Teles 27/05/2026 at 22:53

Interesting facts

Mining advancement puts the forest of giant trees in Brazil on alert, with clandestine airstrips, mercury, and excavators 1.5 km from the red angelins up to 88.5 meters in the Amazon.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 27/05/2026 at 13:53

Government wants to pay up to R$ 8,000 to more than 2,300 traditional families in over 100 communities in Acre and Amazonas for environmental services provided to the Amazon.

Brazilian flying boat aims to shorten trips that can currently take days in the Amazon by using rivers as runways and reaching speeds of 150 km/h to transport people, cargo, and even provide health support in isolated regions.

Far beyond simple shocks: scientists highlight how electric fish from the Amazon use complex bioelectric mechanisms to generate up to 860 volts, a natural evolutionary innovation that ensures an absolute advantage in dark and challenging ecosystems.

Flying rivers that release more than 70% of the rain in areas of Peru and Bolivia depend on public forests without a destination in the Amazon, but the advance of deforestation puts this vital corridor at risk.

Amazon records lowest level of deforestation in eight years and preserves an area equivalent to 7,000 football fields, but progress in Roraima and isolated increase in March raise an alert

Trump threatens Brazil with a 25% tariff and uses illegal deforestation as an argument to pressure exports; US report accuses environmental failures, while recent decline in the Amazon exposes a dispute that could impact Brazilian trade and politics.

UN issues new warning today: chance of El Niño increases even further and the world, including Brazil, needs to prepare for severe climate events.

The Amazon faces an invisible problem beyond deforestation: an open-air landfill near Manaus threatens water, agriculture, and tourism, while a sanitary landfill emerges as a solution to replace irregular disposal and protect communities in Iranduba.

Brazil makes first reforestation concession in the Amazon, grants 145,000 degraded acres to a startup for 40 years and tests if carbon credits can help curb the tipping point of the planet’s largest tropical forest.

Brazil’s most feared highway will become the “most sustainable road on the planet” with a R$ 1.5 billion project, 170 wildlife crossings, 50 bridges, and environmental protection in an area of 40,000 km² in the heart of the Amazon.

Mining advancement puts the forest of giant trees in Brazil on alert, with clandestine airstrips, mercury, and excavators 1.5 km from the red angelins up to 88.5 meters in the Amazon.

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Hidden beneath a small entrance in Namibia’s underground, the largest underground lake in the world is the size of 2 football fields, 264 meters deep, and even has rare animals that survive without sunlight.

Boxer with a fortune of £162 million, Tyson Fury wants to spend £6 million on a private 6.5-acre island to dock his £42 million superyacht near a naval base in the UK.