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Interesting facts

Instead of conventional blocks and concrete, the builder mixes earth, sand, straw, and water to erect a mud house with manually made walls.

Flavia Marinho 20/06/2026 at 16:22

Construction

Boskalis targets seabed sand in Australia and proposes a marine operation in Cambridge Gulf to extract up to 70 million m³, without onshore works, with export for construction in Asia.

Carla Teles 10/05/2026 at 21:52

Science and Technology

Spain pumps 3.3 million m³ of sand through floating and submerged pipelines to reconstruct 7 km of beaches in Valencia and create a coastal strip up to 150 meters wider against erosion

Carla Teles 09/05/2026 at 05:03

Construction

To widen Meia Praia by up to 60 meters, Itapema will extract almost half a million cubic meters of sand from a deposit 19 km off the coast. The R$ 60 million project begins in August and finishes in four months.

Bruno Teles 07/05/2026 at 11:06

Construction

Dubai signs an 810 million contract to dredge sand from the seabed and transform Palm Jebel Ali into a 13.4 km artificial mega-island, featuring 16 fronds and 91 km of beaches for luxury villas.

Carla Teles 04/05/2026 at 15:05

Science and Technology

Honda creates technology that transforms desert sand into material for building roads that are more resistant and 2x more durable, potentially reducing costs by up to 60%.

Ruth Rodrigues 13/04/2026 at 17:53

Interesting facts

The world consumes 50 billion tons of sand per year and no one is monitoring it: the UN warns that the second most used resource on the planet after water is running out and has even created an international mafia.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 04/04/2026 at 18:20

Interesting facts

A man gathered Styrofoam, PET bottles, sand, and cement to build a recycled block using a mold made from an old board and a 50mm pipe to easily raise walls.

Flavia Marinho 30/03/2026 at 21:40

Interesting facts

Where there was only sand and wind at 40 degrees, China built a megacity of 500,000 inhabitants with farms, vineyards, and universities in the middle of the desert using melted glacier water from hundreds of kilometers away.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 28/03/2026 at 02:15

Interesting facts

Where there was only sand and wind at 40 degrees, China built a megacity of 500,000 inhabitants with farms, wineries, and universities in the middle of the desert using melted glacier water from hundreds of kilometers away.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 28/03/2026 at 00:26

Pesquisadores criam material que transforma areia do deserto em blocos de pavimentação usando resíduos de madeira e pressão industrial.

Science and Technology

That Desert Sand Can Turn Into Paving Blocks: New Technology Uses Wood Powder and Promises to Reduce Environmental Impact of Construction

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 10/03/2026 at 13:00

Areia transforma Matinhos com engorda inédita na orla do Paraná, amplia a praia e testa uma defesa costeira maior contra erosão por vários anos.

Construction

Heavy Machinery Unleashes Over 3 Million Cubic Meters of Sand on the Matinhos Waterfront to Extend the Beach by Up to 100 Meters, Combat Coastal Erosion, and Test If an Unprecedented Scale Beach Nourishment Can Reshape Paraná’s Coastline for Years Without Annual Repairs

Bruno Teles 03/03/2026 at 16:36

Instead of conventional blocks and concrete, the builder mixes earth, sand, straw, and water to erect a mud house with manually made walls.

Boskalis targets seabed sand in Australia and proposes a marine operation in Cambridge Gulf to extract up to 70 million m³, without onshore works, with export for construction in Asia.

Spain pumps 3.3 million m³ of sand through floating and submerged pipelines to reconstruct 7 km of beaches in Valencia and create a coastal strip up to 150 meters wider against erosion

To widen Meia Praia by up to 60 meters, Itapema will extract almost half a million cubic meters of sand from a deposit 19 km off the coast. The R$ 60 million project begins in August and finishes in four months.

Dubai signs an 810 million contract to dredge sand from the seabed and transform Palm Jebel Ali into a 13.4 km artificial mega-island, featuring 16 fronds and 91 km of beaches for luxury villas.

Honda creates technology that transforms desert sand into material for building roads that are more resistant and 2x more durable, potentially reducing costs by up to 60%.

The world consumes 50 billion tons of sand per year and no one is monitoring it: the UN warns that the second most used resource on the planet after water is running out and has even created an international mafia.

A man gathered Styrofoam, PET bottles, sand, and cement to build a recycled block using a mold made from an old board and a 50mm pipe to easily raise walls.

Where there was only sand and wind at 40 degrees, China built a megacity of 500,000 inhabitants with farms, vineyards, and universities in the middle of the desert using melted glacier water from hundreds of kilometers away.

Where there was only sand and wind at 40 degrees, China built a megacity of 500,000 inhabitants with farms, wineries, and universities in the middle of the desert using melted glacier water from hundreds of kilometers away.

That Desert Sand Can Turn Into Paving Blocks: New Technology Uses Wood Powder and Promises to Reduce Environmental Impact of Construction

Heavy Machinery Unleashes Over 3 Million Cubic Meters of Sand on the Matinhos Waterfront to Extend the Beach by Up to 100 Meters, Combat Coastal Erosion, and Test If an Unprecedented Scale Beach Nourishment Can Reshape Paraná’s Coastline for Years Without Annual Repairs

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.

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.

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.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.