Barragem

Construction

China has decided to tear down a giant water staircase at the largest dam on the planet, a project costing 11.4 billion dollars and taking over nine years to unlock the bottleneck of the Three Gorges and nearly double the load that goes up and down the Yangtze River.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 10/06/2026 at 20:20

Construction

An R$ 330 million dam in Spain has been ready since 2015, stores up to 30 hm³ of water, but remains without agricultural use because no one built the necessary channels to bring water to the fields.

Carla Teles 12/05/2026 at 14:09

Power Generation

In 80 years building 22 thousand dams, Brazil impacted more than 4 million people — and the law approved in 2024 to protect those affected has not yet come into effect.

Douglas Avila 07/05/2026 at 06:02

Science and Technology

2 scientists analyzed in a new study whether the construction of a mega dam in the Bering Strait could be the last barrier against climate collapse, to protect one of the world’s most important ocean currents.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 28/04/2026 at 21:04

Construction

US spends $1.6 billion to renovate a 90-year-old dam in Pennsylvania that controls the shipping of 23 million tons per year on the Ohio River.

Douglas Avila 28/04/2026 at 18:54

Construction

Lesotho activates a giant 423-meter tunnel boring machine to accelerate the 38 km tunnel between Polihali and Katse, while the dam already exceeds 7.7 million m³ of rockfill and advances to strengthen water and energy in Southern Africa.

Carla Teles 26/04/2026 at 19:04

Após colapso do Mar de Aral causado por canais de irrigação soviéticos, barragem de 13 km construída no Cazaquistão conseguiu recuperar parte do lago, reduzir salinidade

Construction

After Collapse of Aral Sea Caused by Soviet Irrigation Canals, 13-Kilometer Dam Built in Kazakhstan Managed to Recover Part of the Lake, Reduce Salinity, Raise Water Level, and Revive Regional Fishing

Carla Teles 13/03/2026 at 21:09

Barragem em Porteirinha, Minas Gerais, entra em risco de rompimento, aciona Defesa Civil e expõe emergência após chuvas.

Interesting facts

New Disaster May Occur in Minas Gerais After Lajes River Dam in Porteirinha Registers Imminent Risk of Collapse, Overflows With More Than 100 Millimeters of Rain, and Forces Authorities to Declare Emergency

Bruno Teles 02/03/2026 at 11:20

barragem em Siderópolis: matrícula clandestina, mata atlântica e esgotamento sanitário expõem risco perto do Rio São Bento.

Construction

Area Near Dam Supplying 300,000 People Under Scrutiny: Illegal Sale of Registrations, Deforestation of Atlantic Forest, Unlicensed Constructions, and Lack of Sanitation Keep Shanties and Huts Standing Since 2023 Report in Siderópolis

Bruno Teles 21/02/2026 at 11:57

Interesting facts

At-Risk Population: Africa’s Largest Hydroelectric Dam, With 1,780 M And 5,150 MW, Becomes Focus Of Alerts: Study Projects Devastating Floods, Seismic Risks And Water Tension In The Blue Nile

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 15/02/2026 at 11:19

barragem em Santa Catarina destrava licitação do rio Itajaí-Mirim para proteger o Vale do Itajaí após revisão técnica e controle de custos.

Construction

Government Unlocks Historic Dam in Santa Catarina, Cuts R$ 6.6 Million From Budget, Releases Bidding Stalled at the TCE, Authorizes Strategic Flood Prevention Work, Promises to Protect the Itajaí Valley, Benefit 450,000 Residents, and Change Decades of Recurring Regional Losses

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 09/02/2026 at 17:25

Barragem de Rogun no Tadjiquistão avança no rio Vakhsh, fortalece segurança energética e amplia reservatório estratégico para o futuro do país.

Construction

Poor Mountain Country Bets Billions, Diverts a Glacier River, Piles Rock and Clay Over 300 Meters High, and Is Building the Rogun Dam to Control Wild Waters, Double National Energy, and Determine the Entire Economic Future of Tajikistan

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 05/02/2026 at 22:03

China has decided to tear down a giant water staircase at the largest dam on the planet, a project costing 11.4 billion dollars and taking over nine years to unlock the bottleneck of the Three Gorges and nearly double the load that goes up and down the Yangtze River.

An R$ 330 million dam in Spain has been ready since 2015, stores up to 30 hm³ of water, but remains without agricultural use because no one built the necessary channels to bring water to the fields.

In 80 years building 22 thousand dams, Brazil impacted more than 4 million people — and the law approved in 2024 to protect those affected has not yet come into effect.

2 scientists analyzed in a new study whether the construction of a mega dam in the Bering Strait could be the last barrier against climate collapse, to protect one of the world’s most important ocean currents.

US spends $1.6 billion to renovate a 90-year-old dam in Pennsylvania that controls the shipping of 23 million tons per year on the Ohio River.

Lesotho activates a giant 423-meter tunnel boring machine to accelerate the 38 km tunnel between Polihali and Katse, while the dam already exceeds 7.7 million m³ of rockfill and advances to strengthen water and energy in Southern Africa.

After Collapse of Aral Sea Caused by Soviet Irrigation Canals, 13-Kilometer Dam Built in Kazakhstan Managed to Recover Part of the Lake, Reduce Salinity, Raise Water Level, and Revive Regional Fishing

New Disaster May Occur in Minas Gerais After Lajes River Dam in Porteirinha Registers Imminent Risk of Collapse, Overflows With More Than 100 Millimeters of Rain, and Forces Authorities to Declare Emergency

Area Near Dam Supplying 300,000 People Under Scrutiny: Illegal Sale of Registrations, Deforestation of Atlantic Forest, Unlicensed Constructions, and Lack of Sanitation Keep Shanties and Huts Standing Since 2023 Report in Siderópolis

At-Risk Population: Africa’s Largest Hydroelectric Dam, With 1,780 M And 5,150 MW, Becomes Focus Of Alerts: Study Projects Devastating Floods, Seismic Risks And Water Tension In The Blue Nile

Government Unlocks Historic Dam in Santa Catarina, Cuts R$ 6.6 Million From Budget, Releases Bidding Stalled at the TCE, Authorizes Strategic Flood Prevention Work, Promises to Protect the Itajaí Valley, Benefit 450,000 Residents, and Change Decades of Recurring Regional Losses

Poor Mountain Country Bets Billions, Diverts a Glacier River, Piles Rock and Clay Over 300 Meters High, and Is Building the Rogun Dam to Control Wild Waters, Double National Energy, and Determine the Entire Economic Future of Tajikistan

Mother and daughter build a 70 m² house with more than 8,000 discarded glass bottles and impress with their creativity; known as the Casa de Sal, the property is located on Itamaracá Island, in Pernambuco.

The river that “dies” in the desert never reaches the sea and yet gives life to one of Africa’s largest natural refuges in a truly impressive way.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

China transforms desert-devastated area into the world’s largest artificial forest, planting trees for 60 years, blocking sand that reached Beijing, and creating a “green lung” of 92,000 hectares in a region once considered lost.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.